Sentences with 'proportions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proportions and other words derived from it.
• « The shortage of fuelwood has reached crisis proportions in many Third World countries, which use the felling of their forests to pay off their huge foreign debts to major powers. In this respect, the timber-importing countries are not sufficiently merciful. »
• « The chasms that open up between stars are populated by gas, dust and molecules in varying proportions and densities. In some cases, the void is almost total, as if it were nothingness; in others, although very diffuse, the matter there gives space a ghostly and colourful image. These are the nebulae. »
• « Gas, dust and molecules in different proportions and densities give space a ghostly and colourful image: they are sidereal clouds called nebulae. »