Meanings of great disproportion in English

The main difficulty was the great disproportion in our forces.

Miraculous almost, when one considers the great disproportion of numbers.

There is a great disproportion between Huntington's and Hamilton's battalions.

Does not the great disproportion bar all comparison and inference?

Her influence and her place in the public imagination are in great disproportion to her constitutional role.

Hence there was a great disproportion of the slain in battle between peasants and their mounted masters.

The transportation of at least ten males for one female, maintains a great disproportion between the sexes.

A great disproportion of fortune would have terrified me, while the very moderation of his resources attracted me.

Notwithstanding the great disproportion of numbers, 18 of the enemy were killed, all the rest wounded, and their launch taken.

The assemblage of Indians was large, but I was struck by the great disproportion, or excess, of women and children.

There was in Freeland a great disproportion in the comparative number of the sexes, particularly of young men and young marriageable women.

It soon became evident, however, that, in spite of this great disproportion of force, General Lee had determined to fight to the last.

It is not two to one; it is twenty to one, or an even greater disproportion.

Eighteen guns to thirty-eight or forty, which probably the stranger carried, was a greater disproportion than even the gallant Brine was inclined to encounter.

(1) There was certainly a great disproportion of age between him and Margaret, but this must have served to increase rather than attenuate her passion.