Sentence examples for very proportion from inspiring English sources

Relations of form and function can operate at an extremely abstract level: "A building, whose doors and windows were exact squares, would hurt the eye by that very proportion: as ill adapted to the figure of a human creature, for whose service the fabric was intended" (EPM, 212 13).

Tallchief recalled how after six years dancing for him "the very proportions of my body, the configuration of my legs and torso, were different".

We still import a very large proportion of our desserts.

But a very high proportion of the Paris attackers did.

A very high proportion who take it are not addicts.

A very high proportion were murders of young black men by other young black men.

A very small proportion get help from the NHS smoking cessation services.

A very small proportion (0.8%) of non-cancer related deaths were also associated with radiation.

The scientists were annoyed that "a very large proportion of the competitors shirked the examination".

"I'm talking about a very large proportion of the prison population".

It's effective for that very small proportion of people," Phillips said.