The phrase "a heavy degree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or substantial level of something, often in contexts related to intensity or extent.
Example: "The project faced a heavy degree of scrutiny from the board members, which delayed its approval."
Alternatives: "a significant level" or "a substantial amount".
"He takes a heavy degree of responsibility.
"The model adopted for the space program still depends on a heavy degree of military control, and that is a system that has not permitted the desired development," said Ennio Candotti, president of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science.
"It's now possible to trade Creative Services in the same way as oil, gold and company shares", says blur, which isn't strictly true since there's still a heavy degree of human screening on blur's part and that doesn't scale to Internet-efficient standards.
A heavy degree of methylation was also observed in NPC primary tumors, despite the inevitable normal tissue contamination in the biopsy samples without micro-dissection.
Statements made when justifying low motivation were in most cases; the organization of the program is not stimulating, a negative attitude to the studies, having a bad life situation and an experience of too heavy degree of difficulty/demand on studies.
The underground miners performed a number of tasks, including a large degree of heavy weightlifting, bending, prolonged standing, and walking in a confined space.
This circulation of interstellar matter through stars determines to a large degree the amount of heavier elements in the cosmic clouds.
More often in biology, networks are highly heterogeneous, with a "heavy-tailed" degree distribution, placing them in the scale-free family.
The study showed that lambs suffering from moderate to heavy degrees of naturally acquired gastrointestinal nematode infection developed marked osteopenia after weaning, i.eduring the later part of the grazing season.
With long hair and a beard, long before that look was in fashion, and wearing a heavy overcoat in ninety-degree weather, Coleman scared the trumpeter Don Cherry at their first meeting.
Many complex networks such as the World Wide Web, Internet, protein networks, ecological networks or cellular networks, have been shown to follow a heavy-tailed node degree distribution [24].
