Below you will find example sentences with "small portion". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Small Portion in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: portion
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 15 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "small portion" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as only a small portion of the, 000 a small portion of the, site, city and remains stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with small businesses, small business, large portion, large portion, significant portion and lower portion, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with small portion
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Closing libraries in Llano county would affect a relatively small portion of Texas’ citizens. (14 words)
A cab driver said that only a small portion of the stretch remains to be blacktopped. (16 words)
It only reduced a small portion of its production budget, resulting in an all-around failure. (16 words)
The Level 1 threat covers mostly the northwestern part of the state although the National Weather Service is including a small portion of Attala County in the area where damaging winds and even a brief tornado will be possible. (39 words)
The Henry Street Bridge project site only takes up a small portion of the four parts of Greenlawn Cemetery, and it will be the only portion of the site to undergo a city-funded archeologist-led excavation. (37 words)
Although the cult controls only a small portion of the church due to having only a few members of its upper echelon, the rest of the church and its members are unaware of their activities. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Henry Street Bridge project site only takes up a small portion of the four parts of Greenlawn Cemetery, and it will be the only portion of the site to undergo a city-funded archeologist-led excavation.
There are some small private colleges in the capital city of Ouagadougou but these are affordable to only a small portion of the population.
A cab driver said that only a small portion of the stretch remains to be blacktopped.
Although the cult controls only a small portion of the church due to having only a few members of its upper echelon, the rest of the church and its members are unaware of their activities.
A protester read a statement from Woodward at the protest: “A small portion of our business involves indirectly supplying the U.S. government with subsystems that go into military equipment.
As demonstrated by this data, the attack is powerful enough to succeed even if only a small portion of poison samples enters the training pipeline.
Closing libraries in Llano county would affect a relatively small portion of Texas’ citizens.
Even if only a small portion of viewers take the language they’re absorbing online into their offline conversations, we can still imagine how easily it seeps into public consciousness.
Even if steam only accounts for a small portion of GTA V players, it tells us that the trend remains resilient.
In one message, Jervis sent images to Wright of almost £250,000 - a small portion of the profits being made.
In this case, instead of following the steps with a small portion of the ‘problem’ food, you follow the process with the first five mouthfuls of your main meal.
It only reduced a small portion of its production budget, resulting in an all-around failure.
Mr Bazazo acknowledges that pricing in dollars will help him manage his finances and cut a small portion of his losses but worries it will drive away some customers.
Our position in Pear has decayed almost entirely, so we're happy to hold as it's a small portion of the portfolio, but prospective investors must be extremely careful.
The consequences of biopiracy extend far beyond the initial act, as even a small portion of biological resources can be utilized in biotechnological studies, experts say.
The Level 1 threat covers mostly the northwestern part of the state although the National Weather Service is including a small portion of Attala County in the area where damaging winds and even a brief tornado will be possible.
The note also makes clear that “only a small portion” of the €35 billion inserted into Anglo-Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide will be recovered.
The other optics that people think about banks but is actually often a small portion of their assets are high risk investments like stocks in non-blue chip stocks.
These are only a small portion of the fund's portfolio, so the effect is quite muted.
They allow people to see near distances efficiently without leaning toward a screen or tipping their heads back to see through a small portion of a traditional progressive lens.