They exist only in a small proportion of individuals, while the difference of capacity between these favoured individuals and the average of mankind is enormous.
Clark had left, but found only a small proportion of it, the wolves had taken the greater part.
Capt Clark killed a buffaloe bull; it was meagre, and we therefore took the marrow bones and a small proportion of the meat only.
The solid oil, having been scraped or peeled off the surfaces, is worked with a small proportion of shell-lac, by means of a mixing machine with hot rollers, until a material singularly like caoutchouc is produced.
A small proportion of cases of ulcer has been associated also with other diseases in which the arteries are often abnormal, such as with chronic diffuse nephritis, syphilis, amyloid degeneration, and endarteritis obliterans.
The cornea is ulcerated, and the eye destroyed by opening of the anterior chamber in a small proportion of cases.
In any case, however, it is very certain that public prostitutes living entirely on the earnings of prostitution form but a small proportion of the vast army of women who may be said, in a wide sense of the word, to be prostitutes, i.
Both of these suggestions may have some little validity in special cases, affecting slightly a small proportion of the unorganized workers, but neither touches fundamental causes of general high wages.
But a small proportion of the total costs to employers came as benefits to the victims of accidents.
This method, no matter how stringently applied, has never reached more than a small proportion of the cases, and becomes a potent agency of political favoritism and corruption.
Such a tongue was seen in many cases at the beginning of the Philadelphia epidemic, but later it was present in but a small proportion.
The skin may be almost constantly dry as well as warm throughout the whole course of the fever in a small proportion of severe cases.
In order to obtain bright yellow shades of scarlet it is usual to add a small proportion of some yellow dye to the bath.
Dye in a freshly made bath of logwood with a small proportion of old Fustic or Quercitron Bark.
The colour can be brightened by adding a small proportion of stannous chloride to the mordant or it can be added to the dye bath towards the end of the dyeing.
Wash and season them with pepper and salt, and a small proportion of mace and allspice in the finest powder.
A small proportion of that attention usually bestowed on a favourite horse, or even a dog, would suffice to regulate her animal system.
Four eggs will make a pretty omlet, but some will use eight or ten, and only a small proportion of flour, but a good deal of parsley.
Grate some brown bread as fine as possible, soak a small proportion in cream two or three hours, sweeten and ice it.
She carried 476 men, mostly Arabs, with a small proportionof Nubians and Abyssinians.
In actual practice this ideal operation of removing the tumours and leaving the uterus and ovaries intact can only be carried out in a small proportion of cases, probably in less than 10 per cent.
In a small proportion of patients (perhaps not more than one per cent.
If the opposite tube is obviously diseased, and this happens in a small proportion of patients, it should be removed.
A small proportion of the species are Asian, but not African; and the flora of the mountains corresponds closely with that of the great ranges of the tropical zone of Africa.
Jerusalem artichoke, whilst there is but a small proportion of that substance in the potato.
The shoots were, in great part, composed of that year's growth, with a small proportion of the shoots of the previous year.
I have already stated that even the most carefully prepared butter contains a small proportion of casein and sugar of milk.
That children constitute but a small proportion of the blind, as about nine-tenths of the thirty thousand blind in the United Kingdom become so above the age of twenty-one.
The blind seem to have fulfilled the office of historians to their nation, and to have formed no small proportion of the priesthood.
Only a small proportion of the pupils attend more than one year, and the mortality from term to term is very high, although the tuition fee plan insures fairly good attendance during the term.
It will never take care of more than a small proportion of the young workers who need supplementary technical training.
Only a small proportion of the girls and women enrolled in the night sewing classes make their living by sewing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small proportion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
