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Example sentences for "smaller proportion"

  • For instance, a mixture that is thin and composed largely of water will not have so smooth a consistency when frozen as a heavier mixture in which cream or eggs or both are present and a smaller proportion of water is used.

  • They are also different in composition and texture, being lower in protein because of a smaller proportion of eggs and higher in carbohydrate because of additional starch; nevertheless, they are delicious desserts and find much favor.

  • Then, too, a smaller proportion of it is required to thicken the same amount of milk.

  • When cold surroundings are not obtainable, use a smaller proportion of liquid.

  • When a larger number of eggs is required, use a smaller proportion of water and let them stand on the back of the range where the water will be below the boiling point, for 5 minutes.

  • A smaller proportion of liquid may be used when desired.

  • A smaller proportion of workers is now engaged in the low-paid industries than fifty years ago, and a correspondingly larger proportion is in the better, or highly paid, industries.

  • In the first case, wages are a larger proportion of a larger product; in the second case, the product is larger (there being more laborers) but wages are a smaller proportion of it.

  • Both in America and in England (doubtless also in other countries) more men are now engaged in the higher professions and skilled occupations, a smaller proportion in the lower occupations.

  • A smaller proportion of this diminished surplus, therefore, must belong to the landlord.

  • A smaller proportion of it will, therefore, be sufficient to replace, with the ordinary profit, the stock which employs that labour.

  • Though their marriages are generally more fruitful than those of people of fashion, a smaller proportion of their children arrive at maturity.

  • On the other hand a smaller proportion of the adult workers of the city earn their living in professional, clerical, and commercial work, or in domestic and personal service employments than in most large cities.

  • Those who attend more to the quality than the quantity of their rum, will use a smaller proportion of the spent wash, which is always empyreumatic, and imparts more or less of its odour to the spirit distilled from it.

  • Several other fish yield it, but in smaller proportion.

  • They will not produce five millions because the figure AEea bears a smaller proportion to AEE'A' than does AFfa' to AFF'A'.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smaller proportion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    become the; bygone days; cannot love; dried fruits; golden ring; grass land; here comes; know from; knowing look; league distant; many friends; natural depravity; pare them; peculiar institution; que nous; qui fut; seems that; seldom found; smaller number; smaller proportion; smaller quantity; smaller scale; smaller size; sold them; vegetable dish; would save