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Example sentences for "fair proportion"

  • Each division and brigade was provided a fair proportion of wagons for a supply train, and these were limited in their loads to carry food, ammunition, and clothing.

  • Several Russians are established there, and the town contains a population of Chinese from various provinces of the empire, mingled with Mongols and Thibetans in fair proportion.

  • Men, women, and children ran to see the monster, and after gazing a few moments a fair proportion of them took to their heels for safety.

  • The natives were hostile and killed a fair proportion of the Russian explorers.

  • A light, rich, perfectly sweet soil, containing a fair proportion of sharp sand, is necessary to insure plants worth having.

  • Use a light rich compost containing a fair proportion of silver sand, and do not let the plants suffer for the lack of water.

  • Begin by sowing the seed singly in small pots in light turfy loam, or peat with which a fair proportion of sharp sand has been mixed.

  • And, as it had not put a drain round them, the water had come in, and the interior of a fair proportion of these residences consisted of a circular lake, varying in depth from a few inches to a foot and a half.

  • Remember that a fair proportion of them were a few months ago adding up figures in the office of an insurance company or a shipping firm--gulping down their midday coffee and roll in a teashop in King or Collins Streets.

  • These were, perhaps, not so numerous, though forming a fair proportion of the number left by Ribault in the garrison.

  • He took with him a fair proportion of his little garrison, and did not omit the inimitable Guernache.

  • The prevailing shape of the majority is a modified edition of the dwelling of the nomad Arab, to which class doubtless belongs a fair proportion of their occupants.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair amount; fair average; fair degree; fair face; fair lady; fair land; fair lord; fair love; fair maid; fair maiden; fair quality; fair start; fair system; fair trial; fair youth; fairly large; fairly long; fairy godmother; fairy prince; foreign parts; good republican; gwine tell; lemon rind; mound near; supreme effort; used frequently