6 sentences with “proportion”

Most of the members are Swedish, but the proportion of Norwegians, Danes, Finns, Dutch and British is increasing.

And taking into account the rarity of the B group to which the subject belonged, that proportion was reduced to 0.2 percent.

Experts stress that everyone should increase the proportion of fibre in their diet by eating more fruit, vegetables and wholemeal breads.

Advancing age increases the proportion of tissues that tend to replace the cells lost in the struggle for survival. For this reason, the body loses water as the years go by.

In addition to her eating habits, Melissa's figure may have been affected by the fact that she had two children. "As the number of pregnancies increases, so does the proportion of abdominal fat," warns researcher Rodin.

For this scheme to work it was important to get the right proportion of labouring to propertied immigrants. In part, the failure of New Zealand Company plans was because this proportion was never achieved; there were always more labourers than employers.