Proportion in example sentence

So, for roughly 300 years, the hot debate in architecture was whether the number five or the number seven was a better proportion to think about architecture, because the nose was one-fifth of your head, or because your head was one-seventh of your body.

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And that proportion is primarily genetically determined.

I suspect that the word "atheist" itself contains or remains a stumbling block far out of proportion to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves.

I mean the world has changed out of all proportion to what we would recognize even 1,000 or 2,000 years ago.

It's simply the proportion of the population who agree most people can be trusted.

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