Use "proportions" in a sentence

1. scores had reached epidemic proportions

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2. “The devastation in Agrea was of mammoth proportions,” Briz

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3. The idle everywhere consume a great part of it; and, according to the different proportions in which it is annually divided between those two different orders of people, its ordinary or average value must either annually increase or diminish, or continue the same from one year to another

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4. Before the discovery of the mines of America, the value of fine gold to fine silver was regulated in the different mines of Europe, between the proportions of one to ten and one to twelve ; that is, an ounce of fine gold was supposed to be worth from ten to twelve ounces of fine silver

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5. About the middle of the last century, it came to be regulated, between the proportions of one to fourteen and one to fifteen; that is, an ounce of fine gold came to be supposed worth between fourteen and fifteen ounces of fine silver

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6. When he was but an infant, Jakkar suffered a malady that twisted his body into wicked, unhuman proportions

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7. His spine was shaped into an S, one leg failed to grow since infancy, while the other thickened and stretched beyond human proportions every passing year

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8. Different occupations require very different proportions between the fixed and circulating capitals employed in them

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9. A certain quantity of very valuable materials, gold and silver, and of very curious labour, instead of augmenting the stock reserved for immediate consumption, the subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements of individuals, is employed in supporting that great but expensive instrument of commerce, by means of which every individual in the society has his subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements, regularly distributed to him in their proper proportions

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10. He sensed a failure of catastrophic proportions

11. however, employed in each of those four different ways, will immediately put into motion very different quantities of productive labour ; and augment, too, in very different proportions, the value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the society to which they belong

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12. His face was very ugly, stretched to titanic proportions, and there was only the pit of an old injury where one of his eyes should have been

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13. It is thus that the same capital will in any country put into motion a greater or smaller quantity of productive labour, and add a greater or smaller value to the annual produce of its land and labour, according to the different proportions in which it is employed in agriculture, manufactures, and wholesale trade

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14. It would be a scandal of huge proportions

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15. The proportions between the bank price, the mint price, and the market price of gold bullion, are nearly the same

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16. Their employer, as he advances to them the stock of materials, tools, and wages, necessary for their employment, so he advances to himself what is necessary for his own maintenance; and this maintenance he generally proportions to the profit which he expects to make by the price of their work

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17. Where the fees of court are precisely regulated and ascertained where they are paid all at once, at a certain period of every process, into the hands of a cashier or receiver, to be by him distributed in certain known proportions among the different judges after the process is decided and not till it is decided ; there seems to be no more danger of corruption than when such fees are prohibited altogether

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18. The outburst at this statement would have gone to astronomical proportions had Mars not chosen that moment to begin laughing out loud, shocking the hall to silence

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19. My digital measure is accurate to one hundredth of a millimetre and those proportions are totally precise

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20. By noon the whole frontal attack had stalled once more and with no ground taken hardly the whole thing like the past two days was an absolute shambles a cock up of massive proportions

21. They really are a curse of biblical proportions and their constant buzzing is deafening when they are present in such numbers

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22. The produce of the latter may, at different times, bear very different proportions to that value

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23. Now that his surroundings were to normal proportions he should be able to get through that door

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24. Zolla had never before set eyes on a vessel of such gargantuan proportions

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25. The palatial residence destroyed in the last campaign has been replaced by a heterogeneous collection of well-built wattle huts of enormous proportions and barn-like appearance

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26. This cleansing has reduced the death-rate to regular proportions, yellow fever during the past summer has been unprecedentedly scarce, and when the projected canal is cut, to flush out the vast cesspool, Havana harbour, the city, quaint and beautiful despite the dirt, will become a Mecca for winter tourists

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27. This is especially true in highly congested (urban) areas where commuter travel has assumed nightmarish proportions

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28. It has reduced fat ingredients to take away some the guilt associated with a dessert of such proportions

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29. “Of course, they have grown to such proportions, because they have plenty to eat

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30. The eels eat them and, thus, grow to such gigantic proportions

31. "Oh, shit," was all I could think of to say as I sat frozen to my seat, staring uncomprehendingly at the empty space that up until a few seconds ago had been filled by the ample proportions of Detective Inspector Grunt

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32. Clearly, the later, a man of slight proportions, wearing glasses and a vest with many pockets was confused and uncomfortable as they approached – that was a good sign, wasn’t it? Gawking at the approaching women, he pulled himself to his feet in the narrow space between chair and table

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33. The worry she’d assigned to recruiting Caroline hardly seemed worth losing a day over, a feeling that was strongly reinforced when she awoke the next morning with a hangover of enormous proportions and an airplane to catch, but the many pieces were in place and maybe in time to prevent a shortage of product

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34. He let Edward explain his problem, then threw a price out that would be considered high in New York: for Costa Rica, it was a number of astronomical proportions

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35. There was something about the way she clenched and opened her fists continuously that made me believe that just a glimpse of her mind right at that time would have felt like a floating balloon does in a shitstorm of monumental proportions

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36. He instantly dropped the beer can he had strapped on his back, threw away the dick-shaped carrot and T-string, and rushed over to me, skunk still in hand, while Novorski erupted into an evil uproar of demonic proportions that frankly sounded like someone facing severe stomach trouble

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37. The most important piece of news, without which the telling of the story would have become pointless and would have disappeared from the lexicon of storytelling, was this: that there had been a flood of monumental proportions at some time in the ancient past of the original storytellers

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38. Of course all these prospective dates are at the least speculative, all that we can be relatively assured of by the many accounts, two of which I have used here, is that a flood of monumental proportions occurred somewhere north of the Mesopotamian landscape and probably sometime within the early organization of the farming communities that eventually were to attain the complexity of small city-states

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39. His apparent need to reduce to physical proportions a more than physical Being seems to have taken on the aspect of addiction

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40. Mother Earth will unleash the negative energy that the global corporations have created through their overwhelming voracity; that karmic retribution will indeed incite a war of apocalyptic proportions between her and mankind

41. Apparently older boys had learnt the art of stretching break times to infinite proportions to allow themselves time for other pursuits, sadly for God Boy this skill was eons away, he had to lump it for

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42. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of Heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they listened to Him; And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light:

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43. proportions, and we'd gone out a few times before that New Year’s Eve, when he'd

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44. Our ancestors knew so much more than us, and they left us elaborate monuments of grand proportions so that we would not forget about our obligation to truth

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45. And I saw other lightnings and the stars of Heaven and I saw how He called them all by their names and they listened to Him; And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light:

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46. hurt that he had felt for so many years diminished to bearable proportions

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47. At first glance they appeared identical, with the size and the long and light proportions of fine sprinting horses

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48. Most are capable of becoming wizards, elves moreso than unicorns, and elves produce the highest proportions of wizards of serious power

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49. Youssaf was left to wonder aloud, “Can he do it one more time? I’ve seen him rise to one tough challenge after another in the short time that I’ve known him, but can he really step up to one of such immense proportions? This is by far the biggest operation that he’s ever tackled, including the river, the plagues, the labor camp, starvation, and the trek that brought us all here

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50. He now seemed to have risen to larger-than-life proportions at the apex of the hill upon which he stood

51. up to one of such immense proportions? This is by far the biggest operation that he's ever

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52. seemed to have risen to larger-than-life proportions at the apex of the hill upon which he stood

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53. Did Paul do this: please Macedonians tick a box and pledge your denarii? Do these people not know that God is judge: he puts down and he exalts (Psalm 75:7)? To be honest, there are very few big evangelical groups I want to see prosper, but try telling them that! I’m not against churches collecting money to produce quality resources, but at the end of the day the early church in the 1st Century and the Chinese church in the last century exploded to gargantuan proportions with a few pennies and dusty sandals

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54. the thought that widened my grin into maniacal proportions

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55. such large proportions that there would be some left over

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56. Stanislav Grof says, ‘When we encounter the void, we feel that it is primordial emptiness of cosmic proportions and relevance

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57. Poes-Woes trotting onto the back porch with another lizard of Godzilla-like proportions

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58. Because of Parrish they have basically been handed a mess of epic proportions

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59. “Even by your standards, this is a calamity of unprecedented proportions

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60. I observed astonished how a wide lounge was spreading, magnificently decorated and of proportions so big that it seemed like a park, the illuminated little lantern were resembling soldiers in perfect formation who were covering at regular intervals the projecting shore between the lattice and the garden

61. He thrashed around, heaving and grunting, eventually culminating in a sigh of heartbreaking proportions

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62. Jane and Kaite live in a sprawling Snow White style cottage blown up to monster proportions with oversized wooden mushroom tops crashing into each other, sloping down into the earth, and wrap back around the property line

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63. After the session he asked if at the next lesson I would allow him to take measurements so the students could compare the proportions of my body with those in a recent women’s magazine survey on the ‘ideal’ male, and those favoured by Renaissance artists

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64. The financial markets exhibit Fibonacci proportions in a number of ways; particularly they are

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65. What foods go into your meals is very important, but so are the proportions of those foods and the overall portion sizes

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66. The head of government forensics described the corpse as ‘grotesquely mutilated’ and claimed that ‘in 30 years’ he had ‘never seen anything like it’ adding that ‘parts of the body had ballooned to bizarre proportions, seemingly post mortem’

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67. A foot missing its mark, an arm out of control, a hand holding a chunk of metal, a pain of epic proportions - all experienced in a heartbeat

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68. She was there at CN when this so called bribe incident happened, She is adamant that it was a harmless remark blown out of all proportions

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69. proportions, until within a few short centuries the sixth sub-race will stand

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70. each one of the Seven Planetary Logoi, but the proportions vary infinitely

71. The mild weather enabled them to snuff out the fire before it reached proportions that could have turned that region of the northwest forest into a wasteland

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72. In spite of his discourses, as the waywardness of his sons grew out of bounds, his hard feelings for the wealthy reached obsessive proportions

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73. Again, many times your problem is found to have shrunk in size and proportions while you have been resting your mind and body

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74. At some stage, its gathering cosmic charge, having become boundless, would have disintegrated into infinite number of nebulous stars of vast proportions

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75. This phenomenon of onamic split would have in time led to the plunamic proliferation of exponential proportions on the ground as well as in waters

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76. After a meal of epic proportions, she mounted up and had me fly north towards a Kingdom that had little commerce with Khafra as the huge Mountain range separated the two kingdoms and was nearly impassable for an army to travel over

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77. They were winged and of heroic proportions; not a branch on the mysterious stalk of evolution that culminated in man, but the ripe blossom on an alien tree, separate and apart from that stalk

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78. It was of heroic proportions, and the floor of a curious red stone, cut in square tiles, that seemed to smolder as if with the reflection of flames

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79. proportions, the malady exhibited a diminution in severity, and the disabling symptoms

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80. proportions have been repeatedly confirmed both clinically and in various empirical

81. We have contacts across Europe and into the Eastern block where, surprisingly, the unrest against the communists is reaching epidemic proportions

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82. To benefit from it, you can mix equal proportions of onion and lemon juice in a bowl

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83. It can also have beneficial effects on the growth of your hair, since it ensures that your hormones are in balanced proportions

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84. The numbers are swelling to the correct proportions, the purchase of property in Munich is slow but at least we are moving

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85. He was standing on a shadowy gallery from which he looked down into a broad dim-lit hall of colossal proportions

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86. But Palomita had told her that the snakes couldn’t stop laughing at her for hiding her face under her wing, and Squirrel Girl, aware that her own face must have registered horror of comic proportions, was certain the snakes were having a good time making fun of her too

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87. Casualty proportions varied over the course of the war

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88. Decades of anger played out in an argument of colossal proportions

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89. The center spire seemed to grow to mammoth proportions as larger, business-like buildings surrounded us

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90. Ely, the small town nearby, had been hit by the storm, which had grown to record proportions by the time it reached them

91. epidemic proportions and as Dane Howard of the Huron County

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92. The intruder was slightly taller than Tylin and Joey, and by the proportions of the body was definitely male

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93. Building a water vessel of such proportions in the year 10,000 BC

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94. It’s a combination of marinated pork and lamb in various proportions

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95. I could almost have worn it as a topcoat, and the trousers were cut to the same vast proportions

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96. proportions and appearance of a midget

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97. were baking a cake of the same proportions but with on flavour,

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