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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
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Expenditure to / of

"The country's ratio of social security expenditure to its overall spending ranks the lowest in the 30-member OECD."

I have found this sentence but I feel like expenditure to should be expenditure of, considering meaning or is there no problem about to here?

Thank you so much in advance.
  

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Hans51 is there no problem about to here? No problem. "to" goes with "ratio".

— CalifJim

  • Hans51 is there no problem about to here?
  • No problem.
  • "to" goes with "ratio".
  • The pattern is always "the ratio of X to Y".
  • CJ
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Hans51is there no problem about to here?
No problem. "to" goes with "ratio". The pattern is always "the ratio of X to Y".

CJ
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