The phrase "a proportion of first" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific portion or percentage of something that is ranked first, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "A proportion of first place finishers in the race were from the local high school."
Alternatives: "a percentage of the top" or "a share of the first".
In both cases, selecting the plots which had a standard deviation of the intensity values of all pulses < 30, a proportion of first pulses < 0.6 and a density in the 10th height percentile < 0.2 increased the overall accuracy by 4 6%% compared to including a class with the plots with ≥ 95%% species proportion in the LDA.
Conversely, in cohorts of transplant recipients with doubling times similar to ours, our model suggest that the interval between screening can be extended to 10 days while still preserving a proportion of first infections diagnosed with an undesirably high viral load below 5%.
N ova Scotia orchardists who are following Dr. Pickett's modified spray program are producing as high a proportion of first-grade fruit as those who are using intensive chemical applications.
In summary, we have demonstrated the up-regulation of survivin in gastric cancer and the adjacent non-tumour area as well as in a proportion of first-degree cancer relatives.
Comparisons with normative data showed impaired executive function in a proportion of the first episode (FE) sample at baseline.
The patients were mainly Caucasians, relatively young, included a low number of women, a high proportion of first acute myocardial infarction, and a preponderance of single vessel disease.
The next most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin (1.7%), Italian (1.5%), Arabic (1.4%), Cantonese (1.3%), Greek (1.3%), and Vietnamese (1.2%); a considerable proportion of first- and second-generation migrants are bilingual.
The current study provides supporting evidence for the role played by buying-in infected sheep in the acquisition of scrapie, as purchased animals formed a higher proportion of first compared with subsequent cases.
A similar proportion of first search (prevalent) and subsequent search (incident) cases attended appointments with their GPs.
We found that a large proportion of first and second primary molars with caries lesions at different stages of progression remained untreated.
