The phrase "a great segment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant portion or part of a larger whole, often in discussions about demographics, groups, or categories.
Example: "A great segment of the population supports the new policy, indicating a shift in public opinion."
Alternatives: "a large portion of" or "a significant part of".
"Without her passion, focus and drive, many of these stories might well have gone untold and a great segment of the game's history might have been lost".
3) Of the government of the Islamic Republic, we request that in view of the distrust on the part of a great segment of the country's population, it form an independent truth and national reconciliation commission with representation from all candidates, such that it can gain the trust of the people of Iran and find a reasonable solution for the conflict.
Peter Weinberg, a founding partner of Perella Weinberg, said in a statement that Mr. Silver's "broad pharmaceutical and healthcare industry experience complements our existing capabilities and allows us to advise clients across a greater segment of the healthcare sector".
"I think that there must be a greater segment of our population that has tenuous connections to family and friends, and therefore has fewer resources to fall back on when something very bad happens like when they lose their job," he said.
And Dan gave us a great segment about the thousands of navvies who worked like beasts and lived in mud huts.
These issues take on greater significance given a large segment of the driving public may use these systems in the coming years.
What I see is that, as law-of-the-jungle conditions, which have always been the default setting for the poor, begin applying to an ever greater segment of the U.S. middle class, demands for structural change -- and for a more intelligent media to understand and report on those demands -- will intensify.
From the responsible outlook of what was good for the country, great segments of the population have now gone public with their private selves to satisfy that vanity and self-gratification on TV, tattooing themselves, overeating, not reading, cellular chitchatting, tweeting and Facebooking.
These issues are discussed as legitimate concerns in this context since maize is widely used as food in Africa, with the crop representing the largest component of food for the greater segment of the African population.
The party broadened its base to attract increasingly greater segments of the middle class.
The transcriptional activities of three proteins that contain successive greater segments of the C-terminus of RhlR fused to the T3N module were tested on both reporter plasmids in COS-1 cells (Fig. 3).
