The phrase "a model for much" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as an example or standard for various other things or ideas.
Example: "The innovative design of the building has become a model for much of the urban architecture that followed."
Alternatives: "a standard for many" or "an example for numerous".
One of the largest increases occurred in Georgia, now a model for much of this year's national efforts.
"Remember how the freedoms won here became a model for much of the rest of the world".
The Compstat program developed during the Giuliani years has become a model for much of the country and in many other parts of the world.
McBryde was a model for much younger women who have had to learn the demands of running both a family and work.
Here, too, Spain served as something of a model for much of Latin America -- and, in a particular irony, for Chile.
Though she is not college educated and has been a blue-collar worker all of her life, my mom provided a model for much of my professional development.
That's an O.K. resolution for this case — but not a model for the much bigger bailout to come.
But Mr. Shiller is not interested in history for its own sake; he uses Ponzi schemes as a model for something much more important.
More than that, the Partnership is a model for how much progress can be made when government and the private sector work together on sensible, effective climate policies.
A program offering tax credits to jobless workers to buy health insurance has gotten off to a slow, sputtering start, despite energetic efforts by Bush administration officials who want the program to succeed as a model for a much more ambitious effort to help the uninsured.
The subject of his thesis was to try to create a model for how much we understand a musical structure as human beings and which cognitive abilities all human beings share.
