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A relatively low ratio of the length of the index finger to the ring finger correlates with increased risk of prostate cancer in men.

There is much interesting study on the predictive value of the ratio of the length of the index finger to the ring finger within a given gender and race.

It featured a sentence-to-corpse ratio of nearly 1:1, and I tore through it without ever looking up.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused both of them.  (source) Louis Sachar, Holes, 1998

Its six hundred-foot tall silos held the powders of aluminum-silicate, soda ash, limestone and silica sand, which were mixed in precise ratios called batches.  (source) W. William Winokur, The Perfect Game, 2008

They looked at me with faint distaste—or perhaps even incomprehension—no doubt weighing up my fat-to-muscle ratio and finding it wanting.  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

Immigrants have been reduced to cost-benefit ratios.†  (source) Sonia Nazario, Enrique's Journey, 2006

This changed the volume ratio of solid to liquid dramatically, which in turn made the aggregate act as a liquid.  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

Suddenly there was real appeal in building a volcano or making my own neoprene or demonstrating the various scientific applications of gear ratios.†  (source) Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped, 2001

I learned about veneers and gilding, what a mortise and tenon was, the difference between ebonized wood and true ebony, between Newport and Connecticut and Philadelphia crest rails, how the blocky design and close-cropped top of one Chippendale bureau rendered it inferior to another bracket-foot of the same vintage with its fluted quarter columns and what he liked to call the "exalted" proportions of the drawer ratio.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

He makes charts of Irish grammar, Irish history and algebra at home, hangs them on an easel and we have to chant our way through the cases, conjugations and declensions of Irish, famous names and battles, proportions, ratios, equations.†  (source) Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996

Their meat has a ratio of about 14 omega-6 to 1 omega-3.  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

Each year, right through until the mid-1990s, they passed more and ran less until the ratios were almost exactly reversed: in 1995, NFL teams passed 59 percent of the time and ran 41 percent of the time.†  (source) Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, 2006