1.   This is where the government increases the ratio of bonds to bills.

2.   Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help, for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints.

3.   But reducing this smog component increases the ratio of evaporating paint, gasoline and other volatile organic compounds, thereby producing more ozone.

4.   I am less hesitant to propose again, these many years later, that NATO increase the ratio of its science-to-military funding.

5.   Increase that ratio and you deflate some leverage in the stock market.

6.   The reform package unveiled today requires banks and finance companies to increase their ratio of capital to risky loans.

7.   Utilities tend to have predictable income streams and so can afford to increase their ratio of debt to equity.

8.   But Sir Donald said banks, working under the guidance of the HKMA, would be the ones who decide whether or not that ratio should be increased.

9.   It badly needs investment to boost efficiency and help increase the ratio of lines per citizen, now among the lowest in Europe.

10.   To increase the ratio of white-form applicants for the allocation of scheme flats.