Proportion in example sentence

And actually we don't spend nearly enough money looking for those things, looking for those tiny things that may or may not work, but which, if they do work, can have a success absolutely out of proportion to their expense, their efforts and the disruption they cause.

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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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