The phrase "a fair fraction of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a significant portion or amount of something, often in a context where you want to emphasize that it is more than just a small part.
Example: "A fair fraction of the budget was allocated to research and development this year."
Alternatives: "a considerable portion of" or "a significant amount of".
A fair fraction of the men even misremembered themselves as bookish: 23% of the men said they enjoyed "mental activity" the most.
And you meet a lot – and I'm going to be careful what I say here – you meet a fair fraction of male writers and directors who want to wave the equality flag and believe that they're making you a kick-ass female assassin, and they're empowering you.
"A fair fraction of them survived," says Mileikowsky.
However, when Natural Gas wells are drilled a fair fraction of what comes out of the ground is ethane, a hydrocarbon with two carbon atoms.
"It's my strong belief that a fair fraction of the exoplanets we have discovered could be carbon-rich and it's a very interesting thought that on such rocky planets, sand could be a rare commodity and diamonds would be plentiful.
Assuming that this planetary digital trawling effort is still underway, one could imagine that even without Facebook and Twitter's cooperation the NSA is able to scoop up a fair fraction of social conversations around the world, especially in countries of interest.
However, buyers lucky enough to get their hands on a short sale can secure high-quality homes at just a fraction of fair value.
For instance, you might make it just a fraction of the fair market value when an owner defects to another company, but 100percentt of that value when an owner dies.
(It was a basic calculation, but no one else had bothered to do it). Ullah considered the numbers and within a few minutes agreed to what he deemed a fair figure a small fraction of what he'd initially demanded.
Since the gradient time of the LC system was short (5 min including regeneration), a fair number of fractions could be taken during the AsFlFFF separation time of 120 min.
I can't be the only person here who feels disappointed that such a great company as Google, with such great founding principles, will be reduced to arguing that when it employs thousands of people in Britain, makes billions of pounds of revenue in Britain, it's fair that it should pay just a fraction of one per cent of that in tax.
