Portion in example sentence

Now yes, I understand the references to the bible (Exodus) and the underlying theme, but first of all, it was presented with absolutely no resolution, and second of all it would be lost to anyone who has not read the bible (a significant portion of the population) or Charles Fort (a still larger portion).

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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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