Portion in example sentence

If a single event affects a significant portion of the population, not only will demand for social support grow too rapidly for the government to absorb, but the shock may decrease government revenues at the same time by, for example, lowering tax or export revenues.

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Robert Kennedy once said that "few of us have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events."

He doesn't lose the water right, he just chooses to apply that right, or some portion of it, to the stream, instead of to the land.

I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.

So why can't we say with confidence whether or not a significant portion of a continent-scale ice sheet will or will not collapse?

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