| Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana. |
| It is therefore exposed to a disproportionately high dose of chemicals at a critical moment of its development. |
| Like the Irish, Scots disproportionately volunteered to swell the ranks of the British army, but there were important differences. |
| The above of course is all thoroughly rational and gets nowhere near the point that arachnophobia is a disproportionately prevalent fear. |
| They are disproportionately poor, undereducated, unemployed and more likely to end their own lives. |
| The relative poverty of the region is the reason why the financial losses seem disproportionately small. |
