The phrase "a sizeable sample of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large enough group of subjects or items that are representative of a larger population in research or analysis.
Example: "In our study, we collected data from a sizeable sample of participants to ensure the results were statistically significant."
Alternatives: "a substantial sample of" or "a significant sample of".
Recent surface collection and test excavation in limestone caves in the rock islands of Palau, Micronesia, has produced a sizeable sample of human skeletal remains dating roughly between 940-2890 cal ybp.
Drawing on a sizeable sample of 6,388 university professors in Quebec who have published at least one paper between 2000 and 2007, our results identify two turning points in the professors' careers.
Hence, a sizeable sample of 18 volunteers remained.
Last but not least, for pursuing a good signal-to-noise ratio a sizeable sample of participants was tested.
This study involved a sizeable sample of younger adult cancer survivors with particular age-associated needs from representative tumour groups.
The present study aims to build on this work by investigating the relationship between individual differences in impulsivity and cocaine-related compulsivity and grey matter volume variation in large-scale brain systems, in a sizeable sample of cocaine-dependent individuals and healthy volunteers.
Elsewhere Katie Fforde has a short story, The Undercover Cook (99p), tucked in alongside a sizeable sampler of her forthcoming full-length novel.
Our results, although without accounting for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, but on a sizeable sample (n=50) of unselected BC patients, are also in line with the finding of Rothfuß et al (2000) that the Comet assay has not revealed any difference between the in vitro-irradiated cells from four patients with BRCA1 mutation and those from four control subjects.
Despite a sizeable sample, we were unable to ensure that our survey respondents are representatives of the entire target audience.
So, the overall objective of these studies is to get to the point where we can return sizeable samples of cometary material for chemical analysis to answer the question, "Are we comet stuff or not?" I believe Moby already explained that we're all made of stars, but what's our relationship to comets?
When only a single sample is obtainable, the EPA can also estimate effective size in large populations, but requires that a sizeable fraction of the population is sampled to do so (Wang et al. 2010).
