The phrase "a respectable proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant or acceptable amount of something in a formal or semi-formal context.
Example: "The survey results showed that a respectable proportion of participants favored the new policy."
Alternatives: "a considerable amount" or "a significant share".
Over the course of my 10 years in the system, I ended up being diagnosed with a respectable proportion.
Also present at Kinnock's Aberavon count, wearing a scarlet rosette and trailed by a respectable proportion of her country's media, was his wife, Helle therning-Schmidt, the prime minister of Denmark.
Some of these visitors, to be sure, came from the near-by States of Georgia and Alabama in the summer, when Florida is cooler even though it is slightly farther south, but a respectable proportion were winter visitors from the frozen North.
But even among students without any experiences abroad, a respectable proportion (33.0%) was dissatisfied with the supply of learning opportunities in global health at their medical school.
The major finding of our study is the demonstration that the presence of subclinical myocardial necrosis in a respectable proportion of stable patients with diabetes mellitus has heightened long-term adverse cardiovascular event risk.
Repeat the above 2 steps, interchanging between jobs, tasks and wants, soon you'll have completed a respectable proportion of your list.
"The coming days will witness, God willing, the launch of new projects... and a package of incentives for investors to support the Egyptian market and the economy". Morsi acknowledged the "respectable" proportion that voted against the constitution, but gave no nod to the concerns opponents have over the charter.
The pelmet skirt has disappeared up its own waistband, shorts have assumed more respectable proportions and idiot neck-breaking shoes are, by and large, over.
Some traveled great distances, even beyond the empire: trade with India, for example, reached respectable proportions once the nature of the monsoon was understood, and the Red Sea was opened to Roman shipping.
The institution grew organically to its respectable proportions today, the question now - for him - is to classify the kind of artists we talk about that from this generation, to find a definition for the 'urban artist'.
Very little woodcarving was produced here in proportion to the other arts, yet a respectable body of wooden bowls, clubs, effigies, figurines, and similar objects indicates that the Plains artist did not ignore this medium.
