The phrase "a reasonable proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a quantity or amount that is considered fair or acceptable in a given context.
Example: "In our analysis, we found that a reasonable proportion of participants preferred the new design over the old one."
Alternatives: "an acceptable amount of" or "a fair share of".
"We grew revenues and customer numbers across the business, subscriptions now account for a reasonable proportion of the business.
Or you can look at an entire country, and try to save a reasonable proportion of its forests.
In 1948, the educational reforms that came with the inauguration of the NHS required that a "reasonable proportion" of medical students were female.
Fats tend to retard the digestion of other foods; thus, meat with a reasonable proportion of fat remains longer in the stomach, delaying hunger and giving "staying power".
Given that around one in four people are thought to suffer from mental health problems each year, it is pretty certain that a reasonable proportion of those who are mentally ill will end up practising science.
Similarly, he says, once poor countries have established comprehensive mobile coverage, and a reasonable proportion of the population owns a handset, they have a platform from which new services, such as farming advice and mobile money, can be launched.
Without these and other powers department officials can't work out how many students are attending, or whether colleges are teaching to a level where a reasonable proportion of students are likely to pass their courses, while the money is going out the door.
Traders and bankers would consider their risk-taking more carefully if a reasonable proportion of their previous year's bonus, say 50%, were used to mirror the following year's activity.For example, if a trader takes 10% of his book for a ten-year swap, then 5% of his previous year's bonus is used for the same position.
This corresponds to a reasonable proportion of correctly ordered vignette responses compared to reports in the literature9.
Details of the GoldenGate™ assay and the resulting allele calls are supplied in Additional Files 6 and 8. Despite the presence of multiple sub-genomes, the quantitative genotyping capacity of the GoldenGate assay permitted a reasonable proportion (30%) of tested SNPs to be scored in a co-dominant fashion.
These findings suggest that whilst lower-level cadres were not in the majority as in Burkina Faso (78%), they nonetheless accounted for a reasonable proportion (27%) of the workforce at the primary level facilities involved.
