The phrase "a moderate proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific amount or percentage that is neither too high nor too low, often in statistical or analytical contexts.
Example: "A moderate proportion of the participants reported feeling satisfied with the service provided."
Alternatives: "a reasonable amount of" or "a fair share of".
"It was his opinion that if even a moderate proportion of such flights could be replaced by train travel, the need for additional runways at many major airports would disappear".
The results revealed that the formulations containing a high proportion of furfuryl alcohol, a moderate proportion of tannin and a low level of catalyst led to the best compromise between properties having opposed trends.
Wetland-dominated headwater catchments had low but stable pH, while the spring flood pH drop was largest in a group of catchments of intermediate size which contained well-developed coniferous forest and a moderate proportion of peat wetlands.
However, it has been argued that specific personality traits account for only a moderate proportion of the variance in social behavior, with human interaction being largely affected by situational factors [4], [5].
Tumors grown from transplanted G-2 cells (Figure 5A) recapitulated the distinctive features of high-grade WAP-T tumors (Figure 5B), namely a moderate proportion of cells co-expressing Krt14 and Krt8/18.
Given the small shift of 0.34 expected for pure 3n amplified genotypes (Figure 1a), the presence of a moderate proportion of stroma shifts the logR signal close to zero (Figure 1b), such that it is often difficult to distinguish 3n from 2n using logR alone (Figure 2b).
A moderate proportion (12.0-16.7%) of HCWs at a children's hospital in Taiwan were infected during the 2009 pandemic.
There is abundant evidence that an in-life diagnosis of lung cancer is unconfirmed by autopsy diagnosis in a moderate proportion (perhaps 10% or so) of cases [ 86].
Although only a low to moderate proportion of patients who actually passed away within the observation period were identified by the prediction, the majority of selected patients had corrected predictions, as shown by the NPVs.
Interestingly, the chromosome-wise analyses reveal that some of the 'non-introgressed' calves (Supplementary Figure S4a) have moderate proportion of European taurine ancestry on a small subset of chromosomes, similarly within the Sheko population.
Recently, between eSSR markers Embra1656 and Embra1071 (16.4 and 1.4 cM away, respectively) the QTLs governing moderate proportion of the genetic variation (11.5%) for rust resistance was identified (Alves et al. [2011]).
