We found 51 examples of how to use proportion in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 51.
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| 1. | Taxes should be levied in proportion to ability to pay and in proportion to the benefits received. Income was wisely chosen as the measure of benefits and of ability to pay. | |
| 2. | It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. | |
| 3. | You will progress in proportion to your abilities. | |
| 4. | The wages will be paid in proportion to the work done. | |
| 5. | The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises. | |
| 6. | Each man's pay will be in proportion to his work. | |
| 7. | Each man's pay was in proportion to his work. | |
| 8. | Our earnings are in proportion to our real ability. | |
| 9. | With every increase of scientific knowledge, man's power for evil is increased in the same proportion as his power for good. | |
| 10. | Robert got a small proportion of the profit. | |
| 11. | The media blew the whole thing out of proportion. | |
| 12. | This beer contains a high proportion of alcohol. | |
| 13. | Here the wages are paid in proportion to the amount of work done. | |
| 14. | The proportion of girls to boys in our class is three to two. | |
| 15. | You get paid in proportion to the amount of the work you do. | |
| 16. | In proportion as our GNP increases, our living standards go up. | |
| 17. | The punishment should be in proportion to the crime. | |
| 18. | You'll have to proportion your expenditure to your income. | |
| 19. | Men's wants become greater in proportion to the increase in their income. | |
| 20. | The proportion of sunny days to rainy days last month was 4 to 1. | |
| 21. | In the First World War, a large proportion of England's young men enlisted. | |
| 22. | In Japan wages are usually in proportion to seniority. | |
| 23. | In proportion as the sales increase, the profit will rise. | |
| 24. | His extravagance is out of proportion to his wage. | |
| 25. | His income bears no proportion to his social standing. |