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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hefty percentage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant or substantial portion of something, often in contexts like statistics, finance, or surveys.
Example: "A hefty percentage of respondents indicated that they preferred online shopping over traditional retail."
Alternatives: "a large proportion" or "a significant share."
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A hefty percentage got lost.
A hefty percentage of stuntmen are born into it.
LONDON — Casting, one is often told, accounts for a hefty percentage of a production's success.
A hefty percentage have received rave reviews from the liberally minded American Bar Association's Committee on the Judiciary.
They are known to control large sectors of that market and to collect a hefty percentage of its profits.
Twenty million dollars a picture is now routine, and performers often take a hefty percentage of a movie's gross, too.
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That's a pretty hefty percentage of uncomfortable women..
The second was the overseas scholarship programmes which took up a hefty share of aid agency and government training budgets.
It now pays a hefty three percentage points more than Germany on its benchmark bonds, in part because investors fear that the austerity program, by retarding growth and so far failing to reduce borrowing, will make it harder for Dublin to pay its bills rather than easier.
It now pays a hefty three percentage points more than Germany on its benchmark bonds, in part because investors now fear that the austerity program, by retarding growth and so far failing to reduce borrowing, will make it harder for Dublin to pay its bills rather than easier.
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