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The phrase "a certain percentage of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific but unspecified portion of a whole, often in contexts like statistics, research, or analysis.
Example: "A certain percentage of the population reported feeling more stressed during the pandemic."
Alternatives: "a specific fraction of" or "an unspecified portion of".
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We're limiting our borrowing to a certain percentage of GDP.
You can only have a certain percentage of success.
Many employers match a certain percentage of each employee's contribution.
Others even forecast deductions as a certain percentage of an order, based on past experience.
It has to allocate a certain percentage of its assets every year.
Section 106 obliges developers to make a certain percentage of new homes affordable.
"Most people only function up to a certain percentage of their capacity," she said.
A certain percentage of jobs need minorities or women to fulfill requirements.
There is a certain percentage of the population that doesn't much care.
Machine reading of punch card ballots will predictably misread a certain percentage of ballots.
And then we're going to have a certain percentage of people who are illegally stealing.
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