The phrase "a more significant number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing quantities or amounts to indicate that one number is greater or more important than another.
Example: "In the recent survey, a more significant number of participants expressed satisfaction with the new policy."
Alternatives: "a larger number" or "a greater number".
Brajesh Mishra told me that if the attack on the Parliament had resulted in a more significant number of casualties "there would have been mayhem".
A more significant number of people have migrated from the southeast to the more industrialized and urbanized western states of Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun or to the agricultural western states of Ondo and Edo.
Selfies, by now, fall outside sort-of-apologetic-but-not-really titty-and-pec pics; at this point, a more significant number of online self-representations – status updates, tweets, whatever – are legitimate "selfies" too.
But Cryosat's innovation has been to provide a means to get at a figure for ice volume - a far more significant number in terms of understanding the long-term viability of the ice.
The transmembrane domain was highly over-represented in unstable proteins with an E-value of 3.75e-96 – a far more significant number than any other feature.
We therefore also performed the same analysis on a statistically more significant number of samples composed of monthly means from 86 INTERMAGNET observatories available from January 2007 to December 2008 (definitive data).
For the first time since World War II, a significant number of Britons don't have enough to eat, and an even more significant number can only afford processed junk food, the biscuits and TV dinners that are always cheaper, always more available, than fresh fruits, vegetables and meats.
But a statistically far more significant number of us are guilty of a battery of lesser crimes.
The more significant number, though, is Clinton's favorability rating, which has sunk to 33percentt, down from 41percentt in August.
