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Example sentences for "direct ratio"

  • Given an equal degree of force and velocity on the part of the bullet at the moment of impact, the assumption is justifiable that the thinner mantles would tear or burst more readily in direct ratio to their relative thinness.

  • As the house nears completion, his supervision increases in direct ratio.

  • But it would seem more reasonable that father's declining years in Florida or California would be sweetened in direct ratio to the amount realized on his property.

  • Besides, your property value will decline in direct ratio.

  • An eminent statistician has stated that mortality is in direct ratio to the density of population, and that superficial area is as essential to health as cubic space.

  • The strength of men, says Baron Liebig, is in direct ratio to the plastic matter in their food.

  • If, in direct ratio to the stringency of prohibitory measures, the vice sought to be exterminated has steadily increased, does not reason suggest the expediency of resorting to other measures for its suppression?

  • Recollect that every year, as the virulence of syphilis was abated, the cause of the expense would diminish, and that in a direct ratio to the energy displayed in the examination would be the progressive reduction of expenditure.

  • The tendency of the treatment of hydatid cysts has constantly been toward simplicity, and the success occurs in a direct ratio thereto.

  • The number of deaths bears a direct ratio to the degree of heat, the highest death-rate occurring in seasons of unusual high temperature.

  • The gall-bladder contracts on its contents with an energy in direct ratio to the amount of bile present, and with the gush of fluid the concretion is whirled into the duct.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brought her; direct answer; direct assault; direct attention; direct contradiction; direct current; direct evidence; direct experiment; direct government; direct legislation; direct perception; direct pressure; direct proof; direct tendency; direct their; direct violation; directing them; directly opposed; directly opposite; finally settled; master builder; over forty; seems probable; slavery agitation; take good; thar hain