11.   Bonior said Democrats expect to receive a larger portion of committee assignments because Democrats make up a larger proportion of the House.

12.   A film now does most of its business in the first two weeks of release, when studios typically receive larger portions of box-office revenues.

13.   A sales tax would shift the tax burden from the rich to the middle class, since affluent people save a much larger portion of their earnings.

14.   According to investment bankers, a large number of technology and Internet companies going public are demanding that a larger portion of their stock go to individual investors.

15.   But as pharmaceuticals become a larger portion of overall health care expenditures, they have become the scapegoat for rising health care costs.

16.   But they have been confounded by a trend in the restaurant world toward ever larger portions.

17.   Clinton argued that a larger portion of that relief should go to rural hospitals, teaching hospitals and home care agencies.

18.   Charlotte seems like a little Southern town that suddenly has larger portions of everything, including my bank accounts.

19.   Deutsche Bank, which already owns Bankers Trust, has said it wants to capture a larger portion of the American banking pie.

20.   Estimates vary, but a much larger portion of the granate formation is underground, and is said to extend under half of Georgia and into North Carolina.