31.   Our note taker had dubious journalistic credentials and grew increasingly disoriented in direct proportion to the number of wine bottles opened.

32.   Recent events suggest that dynamiting slackens in direct proportion to the number of cops on the water.

33.   Some studies have found that interviewers like applicants in direct proportion to the amount of time that the interviewers talk.

34.   Some predict that anxiety will rise in direct proportion to the consequences of test performance.

35.   Squabbling increased in almost direct proportion to the drop in income.

36.   That declines in direct proportion to how often you stomp the accelerator, which, we admit, is often.

37.   The aggravation seems to mount in direct proportion to the number of minutes spent behind the wheel.

38.   The degree of difficulty of Valencia is expected to rise in direct proportion to the battering it has taken this week.

39.   The duke will back the show, but, it turns out, only in direct proportion to the affection shown him by Satine.

40.   The fundamentals are what matters, and politicians will do well in direct proportion to their acceptance of that.