Example sentences of "quite out of proportion to " in BNC.
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1 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
2 | Rather in the same way that the mite of scabies sets up an allergic reaction , in certain people infected with candida an intense irritation occurs , which may be quite out of proportion to the degree of infection . |
3 | Syphilis has a reputation in the United Kingdom today quite out of proportion to the amount of infection that it causes . |
4 | There were not many of them but they made an impact on the Congress that was quite out of proportion to their small numbers . |
5 | Mark Wait at Heffers in Cambridge commented , ‘ The work involved in collecting statistics can be quite out of proportion to the level of business being done . |
6 | She felt engulfed in a frozen rage quite out of proportion to the situation … |
7 | We have a degree of influence in the UK which is quite out of proportion to our relatively small number . |
8 | Special care baby units are phenomenally expensive in equipment ; there 's an awful lot of monitoring equipment that 's required , and it has to be updated every few years , and the costs are quite out of proportion to the amount of money available to the health authority , so that er , on the whole , special care baby units throughout the country now rely virtually totally on charitable giving . |