Sentence examples for usual proportion of from inspiring English sources

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.

Considering a recent study showing that some of the Manu lineage strains could result from mixed or polyclonal infections [ 38], and seeing the higher than usual proportion of Manu lineage strains in our study, it might be important to systematically perform MIRU typing of all spoligotyping clusters in future studies in the Afar pastoral region.

We found a general positive correlation between HM density and densities of all sets of conserved microsatellites (table 1 and supplementary fig. S6, Supplementary Material online), although the statistical significance was weaker for NPMs and especially NP3Ms, which suggests that a number of megabase segments contain a higher than usual proportion of widely conserved microsatellites.

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

And the word pandemic is misunderstood: a disease is considered pandemic if it has spread globally and affects a larger-than-usual proportion of the population.

But Pears and Mercer never had any youthful bloom to speak of: the beauty of their voices always contained a larger-than-usual proportion of strangeness.

In addition, high debt burdens and nervousness about the economy will probably lead Americans to keep a larger-than-usual proportion of their income in savings.

The Herald Tribune has three times as many editors as writers-the opposite of the usual proportion, reflecting the paper's longtime role as a digest of stories written by New York Times and Washington Post reporters.