proportional
New England has proportionally more householders in the 55- to 74- year-old group than the rest of the nation.
Job cuts in Georgia could total 5,000 if the airline trims its work force here proportionally to the rest of its nationwide system.
Although the number of cell phones has doubled in the U. S. in the past five years, the number of traffic accidents hasn't gone up proportionally.
If women were proportionally represented, there would be close to 70 female legislators.

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proportionally | Business English

proportionally
adverb
uk /prəˈpɔːʃənəli/us(alsoproportionately)
when considering an amount of something as a part of a whole:
proportionally less/more/fewerGermany has proportionally more long-term unemployed than rival big economies.

Examples of proportionally

proportionally
If the true mortality rates were lower than we assumed, then the effects observed would be proportionally less.
For one thing, proportionally, he has not published nearly as many works on criminal procedure as he has on other subjects.
In the near future, therefore, many more children, proportionally as well as in absolute numbers, will in all likelihood live in the developing world.
Since individual environmental variance also subsumes measurement errors, the heritability and effect of family environment are proportionally deflated by the value of the reliability.
It simply gets bigger, as capital and labor inputs increase proportionally.
However, the actual social security system is progressive, so that people with higher earnings receive less than proportionally.
We postulate a linear relationship because mortality should increase proportionally over most of the range of retirement ages in our sample.
The horse also has a very stiff chest wall that limits the thoracic displacement to ventilation during exercise86 and mandates a proportionally greater diaphragmatic displacement.
The impact of differing annuity costs can be estimated by proportionally reducing the income by the increase in annuity prices over actuarially fair rates.
A good way to do that is to decrease it proportionally to a value which increases along with the increase of the length.
Main figures are proportionally wider and vertically higher and are almost always located at the center-right of the scene.
As will be shown later, a hierarchical structure exists in which important figures are depicted as proportionally wider than lowerranked figures in the same scene.
These monthly birth rates were mapped onto the four-weekly intervals so that monthly birth rates would contribute to each interval rate proportionally.
Jobless singles also run a proportionally higher risk of poverty.
Equal sampling leads to proportionally longer external branches, since fewer pairs of individuals are in the same island (a necessary prerequisite for coalescence).
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