Sentence examples for usual proportion from inspiring English sources

Almost one-third of the 35 million square feet now available is sublet space, roughly double the usual proportion, according to the brokerage Newmark JGT.

At the University of North Carolina, for example, just 15percentt of seniors had a job waiting for them on graduation day last month, half the usual proportion.

The gun had been heavily loaded, with nearly double the usual proportion of shot, for the purpose of shooting on the wing.

Christ Church was by far the grandest, most aristocratic and church-minded of all the Oxford colleges, with an even higher than usual proportion of homosexual dons.

By October 2013 the hospital had identified that a higher than usual proportion of eight patients who had undergone stem cell transplantation between March and August had suffered setbacks after encountering what doctors call "delayed engraftment".

The demographics of the West Virginia primary overall appeared to be highly favourable to Sanders, with a higher than usual proportion of independents taking part and few minority voters, who have tended to lean toward Clinton.

The soil used must be high in sand and low in clay, 70 percent and 30 percent being the usual proportions.

With so many terrific tomatoes this year, I inverted the usual proportions of lettuce to tomatoes, favoring the tomatoes.

The important grapes in St.-Emilion are merlot and cabernet franc and the usual proportions are two-thirds merlot and one-third cabernet franc.

But now, in "John Birch: A Life" (Oxford), Terry Lautz reverses the usual proportions and presents a biography of Birch in which the society figures as a sort of epilogue.

Furthermore, one should be cautious when abdominal distention at physical examination and bowel dilatation on plain radiographic examination are exceeding the usual proportions for the patient in question, such as in our cases.