The phrase "a proportion of us" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific fraction or percentage of a group of people.
Example: "A proportion of us believe that climate change is the most pressing issue of our time."
Alternatives: "a segment of us" or "a fraction of us".
The debate centres on a longstanding requirement that a proportion of US food aid be transported on American ships with domestic crews, a policy aimed at bolstering jobs but long criticised as inefficient.
Isn't his core constituency, angry white voters, especially men, declining both as a proportion of US voters and – awful thought – because their mortality rates are actually rising?
Inevitably, a proportion of us will need some form of adaptation, assistive technology or accessible features to support us through changing life circumstances.
As seen above (Fig. 1), this drove the loss of Foxp3-GFP expression in a proportion of cells, allowing us to sort into GFP+ and GFP− populations (Supporting Information Fig. 1).
Similarly, studies conducted on the United States mainland have revealed that a sizable proportion of US-based dentists had either never attended a CE course on oral cancer or had done so years ago [ 35, 39, 40].
But the mere publication of a fact did not stop a large proportion of US citizens from believing the myth that he was born overseas.
That a good proportion of us are able to earn a living playing sport, a further group sustain themselves passing judgement on those that hop, skip and jump, and the wider community turn up to watch for their own entertainment says something profound about the society that we have made for ourselves.
Trump's pronouncements on climate change are also contrary to a large proportion of US voters, with recent Gallup polling showing a record number of Americans now see climate change as a threat to their way of life.
Nowadays, the same handful of large, diversified asset management companies controls a significant proportion of US corporations.
Four years after the Haiti earthquake, for instance, a substantial proportion of US development funding in the country still goes via American, rather than Haiti-owned companies.
The good news is that, just as many of us find fulfilling jobs, a healthy proportion of us still retain happy memories of our school days.
