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Example sentences for "what proportion"

  • What proportion of our population is foreign-born?

  • What proportion of qualified voters actually use the ballot?

  • What proportion of our population is Negro?

  • What proportion of these veils can go to the market without any dyeing or re-dressing?

  • What proportion of job lots may there be in that sort of veil?

  • In what proportion is money paid to women who knit with your wool?

  • What proportion of the wages of these workers is paid by you in money?

  • What proportion do they bear in the population of the northern states, and what in the middle non-slaveholding states?

  • What proportion do they bear in the population of the Northern states, and what in the Middle non-slaveholding states?

  • What proportion of the school are the children of apprentices?

  • What proportion of the breaking weight of a beam would you consider a safe load?

  • What proportion do circumference and areas of circles bear to their radii?

  • In the triangle, b being a right angle, what proportion does d b bear to a d and d c?

  • Thirdly, When the same Author alledges that it must be known, when a Light Body reascends from the bottom of the water to {230} the top, in what proportion of time and swiftness it rises.

  • What proportion of the number of men that you had employed, was at work on that day--the 1st day of August?

  • What proportion of that crowd were disposed to be riotous or lawless?

  • What proportion of your company has seen service?

  • Take it in the whole shops--what proportion were at work?

  • What proportion of this area do you believe to be arable land of fair quality, including pasture that might be put under the plow?

  • What proportion is now in forest or mountain sections which may not be available for agriculture for a long period?

  • What proportion of the arable land above measured should you consider suitable to the production of wheat under general conditions such as are given in the text, say, a stable price of one dollar per bushel in London?

  • In your opinion, what proportion of the work was performed by women, as compared with that performed by men, in the groups and classes that came under your supervision?

  • What proportion, or, approximately, what number, of exhibits were installed by foreign women?

  • What proportion of women received awards in your group or classes?

  • With regard to the first question, all that we need to know is what proportion of the Christians are in a position to carry on their own religious life independently of foreign help.

  • We need to know in what proportion it works amongst men and women, how far different classes of the population are reached by it, and what emphasis is placed upon different forms of work, evangelistic, medical, and educational.

  • Does Franklin use simple, compound, or complex sentences, and in what proportion?

  • What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables?

  • What proportion of his sentences are simple?

  • Nevertheless, it remains true that the value of every piece of land arises partly from nature, and partly from society; but it is impossible to say in what proportion.

  • What proportion of the surplus gains of monopoly are due to extortionate prices rather than to economies in production, cannot be known even approximately.

  • What proportion of church members drift into their church membership, and what proportion join only after a careful study of the relative merits of the different churches?

  • What proportion of the voters in your voting district actually study and appreciate the issues in each election?

  • What proportion drift or take the way shown them by others?

  • Question--What proportion of the men had never practised with ball cartridge?

  • Question--What proportion of the regiment was composed of lads under twenty years of age?

  • Question--What proportion of the whole battalion had not been exercised with blank cartridge?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "what 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:
    each flower; sift flour; support their; this custom; what account; what adventure; what amount; what became; what direction; what ground; what hath; what have; what have you done; what kind; what kinds; what must; what name; what nature; what ought; what part; what shall; what they; what thou; what wilt; whatever kind; whatever rank