The phrase "a rather high proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or quantities to indicate a significant part of a whole.
Example: "A rather high proportion of the participants reported feeling satisfied with the program."
Alternatives: "a significant percentage of" or "a considerable amount of".
The city has a rather high proportion of both elderly residents and single-parent families compared with the Israeli and metropolitan averages.
The school's strategy is to admit a rather high proportion of people with non-traditional MBA backgrounds, but who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are able to embrace new opportunities in a quickly changing business landscape.
The powerful polymorphism/divergence approach provided evidence for adaptive evolution at a rather high proportion of the Or genes studied after relatively recent speciation events.
A rather high proportion of patients, approximately 55 60 %, were using prednisolone over the period.
Given that only about 20% of such undeterminate thyroid lesions will be malignant, a rather high proportion of patients could have been dispensed from surgery.
Our patient cohorts have a rather high proportion of rectal cancers, and rectal cancers have a lower KRAS mutation frequency than colon cancers.
A third implication, of the finding that all three instruments showed a fair validity, is that the three tested instruments could all be used to predict activity pattern in CFS patients, but that the rather high proportion of false predictions remains a serious problem that needs attention in future studies.
It is worth noting the rather high proportion of the floating population in urban single-person households in 2010.
The rather high proportion of unspecified carcinomas in women diagnosed shortly after birth, however, may reflect difficulties with classification of the tumor.
The rather high proportion of home-deaths (64.5%) in this subgroup of patients receiving home care during the last 4 weeks can be interpreted as a further indicator of a helpful and supportive professional care in the majority of patients.
However, this cut-off is recommended for children and adolescents between the ages of 12 18, which might explain the rather high proportion of poor mental health among both girls and boys at the age of 20/21.
