The phrase "a rather significant amount" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a quantity that is considerable or noteworthy in a particular context.
Example: "The project required a rather significant amount of funding to get off the ground."
Alternatives: "a considerable amount" or "a substantial amount."
The company's shares have dropped about 15percentt in the past five days, which once again shaves off a rather significant amount of the company's market cap.
The film is somewhat unique in that it has grossed a rather significant amount of money, more than many others of its ilk, and yet is being painted (fairly or not) as something of a failure or a disappointment.
In our earlier study, we found that asking about intention before screening resulted in lower reports of past screening by a rather significant amount [ 7].
Instead, a significant amount of moral judgment and behavior may be the result of gaining moral knowledge, rather than just reflecting the causal conditioning of evolution.
"It appears that the surplus projections will be increasing rather than decreasing, and by a fairly significant amount," said Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee.
The deal on the table involves a significant amount of shares, rather than a significant amount of cash, in Liberty which is not a company that CVC has already invested in.
In a rather practical perspective, the significant amount of experience accumulated in ports around the world over the years may enlighten the applicability, benefits and drawbacks of current efforts in terms of quality, safety and security implementations.
However, as the Raman signal is usually weak, in particular for biological samples, imaging measurements with extended areas still require rather high excitation power and take a significant amount of time for the complete measurement, which is typically in the range of minutes to tens of minutes, which makes the observation of dynamic phenomena with Raman microscopy very challenging.
