Fixed oils are those which will not evaporate without being decomposed; this is the case with all common oils, which contain a greater proportion of carbon than the essential oils.
It is loaded with a greater proportion of hydrogen and carbon, and is no longer fit for the nourishment of the body, or other purposes of circulation.
But, pray, are not acids still more caustic than oxyds, as they contain a greater proportion of oxygen?
The trade to our Northern Colonies is not only greater, but yearly increasing with the increase of people: and even in a greater proportion, as the people increase in wealth and the ability of spending, as well as in numbers.
Clysters of Harrowgate water are recomended, either of the natural, or of the factitious, as described below, which might have a greater proportion of liver of sulphur in it.
The question then may be put into this simple form: does the period of two years bear no greater proportion to the knowledge requisite for federal legislation than one year does to the knowledge requisite for State legislation?
In Pennsylvania, the representatives do not bear a greater proportion to their constituents than of one for every four or five thousand.
The whole mixed mass of matter, of which the earth is composed, we suppose to be surrounded and penetrated by the two ethers, but with a greater proportion of the masculine ether than of the feminine.
In the one case, no greater proportion of the annual labour of the country is devoted to the support of the labourers, in the other case, a larger portion is so devoted.
A greater proportion of it must consequently belong to the landlord.
It is easy to perceive that the more Lead is added the more accurately will the Gold and Silver be refined; and that so much the more Lead ought to be added as the perfect metals are alloyed with a greater proportionof the imperfect.
Alkalis are Saline combinations, in which there is a greater proportion of earth than in Acids.
Nor does it bear equally upon every part of the country; for it is consumed in a greater proportion by cattle at a distance, than by those near the sea shores.
The State of Massachusetts imports a greater proportion of this article than any other in the Union; she will have therefore (say the opponents of the measure) to pay exclusively all the impost upon it.
Hence it becomes necessary to give encouragement sufficient to induce merchants to vest a greater proportion of their capital in this way.
If they consume more country rum than West India, they pay a less duty than those States which consume a greater proportion of the latter.
Whatever is the fitting contribution from property to the general expenses of the state, in the same, and in no greater proportion, should it contribute toward either the interest or the repayment of the national debt.
If wages are higher at one time or place than at another, if the subsistence and comfort of the class of hired laborers are more ample, it is for no other reason than because capital bears a greater proportion to population.
Copper requires less power than brass; yellow, and other brass containing zinc, less than brass containing a greater proportion of tin.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greater proportion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
