Proportion in a sentence

Four Books on Human Proportion Dürer's work on human proportions is called the Four Books on Human Proportion (Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion) of 1528.

Within England, Leicester had the highest proportion of children aged under 16 in relative low income families (41.7 per cent) and the City of London had the highest proportion in absolute low income families (38.9 per cent).

Chris Hanretty, Professor of at Royal Holloway, University of London, which helped analyse the data, said: “The vast majority of registered voters have photo ID, but a small proportion don’t, and that small proportion gets bigger in some areas.

Compared to our most similar neighbours (Guernsey and Jersey), the Isle of Man has a smaller proportion of the working age population, a larger proportion of the population being 65+, and a lower birth rate.

This could reflect a higher proportion of women in that area working part time than men, as well as women making up a smaller proportion of managerial and executive jobs in that area.

As a consequence, the decline in the proportion of married people and the surge in the proportion of single people is especially evident among the young.

London has the lowest proportion of internet non-users (7.0%) while Northern Ireland continues to have the highest proportion (14.2%), followed by the North East of England (12.1%).

NBC found that the proportion of Democrats who say abortion “should always be legal” or “should be legal most of the time” has risen 13 percentage points since 2008, while the proportion of Republicans who say so has risen 4 points.

Within Quebec, the largest proportion of those living alone (21 per cent) do so in the region of Montreal, while the smallest proportion (nine per cent) is recorded in the province’s north.

A centroid is a location that has a high proportion of a country's population and a high proportion of its manufacturing, generally within convert.

A production function has constant returns to scale if increasing all inputs by some proportion results in output increasing by that same proportion.

Because the by-products are created in direct proportion to the amount of exposure and development, the dye clouds formed are also in proportion to the exposure and development.

Inside the region, Hull has the highest proportion (16.7%) of schools with bad behaviour – the worst in England (Wandsworth and Bristol come joint second) – and York schools have the highest proportion (30%) of schools with outstanding behaviour.

Inverse transform sampling for normal distribution We are randomly choosing a proportion of the area under the curve and returning the number in the domain such that exactly this proportion of the area occurs to the left of that number.

It also shows the proportion of residents in each district reliant upon lowest income and/or joblessness benefits, the national average proportion of which was 4.5% as at August 2012, the year for which latest datasets have been published.

Litter with a higher proportion of labile compounds decomposes much more rapidly than does litter with a higher proportion of recalcitrant material.

Part of this increase is probably caused by interchanging identities of Creole and Maroon, causing a decrease in the proportion of Creole and an increase in the proportion Maroon.

Proportion of repetitive DNA The proportion of repetitive DNA is calculated by using length of repetitive DNA divide by genome size.

They initially focused on the manufacturing industry, where increasing technology and productivity improvements have reduced the relative proportion of the direct costs of labor and materials, but have increased relative proportion of indirect costs.

This is a slightly higher proportion in production, and lower proportion in services, than the UK average.