They cut down the ordinary meaning of the words and reduce them to reasonable proportions.

Recruits include a reasonable proportion of women, Serbs, and other ethnic minorities.

The disk had icecaps and a reasonable proportion of land and water surface.

It was not even being clipped or kept to reasonable proportions.

The percentage of total income necessary to maintain these men in idleness is far beyond all reasonable proportion.

There is pressure on exam boards to give a reasonable proportion of good grades otherwise schools will look elsewhere.

She also criticized Israeli official and media reactions as "blown out of all reasonable proportion."

Processing aid has to be in reasonable proportion to production costs and take account of the market value of the products.

Administrative costs should be in reasonable proportion to the operating appropriations used.

To promise to pay a reasonable proportion, as you have done up to now, is not acceptable.