The phrase "a somewhat heavy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a considerable weight or is burdensome, but not excessively so.
Example: "The box was a somewhat heavy load for her to carry up the stairs."
Alternatives: "a rather weighty" or "a moderately heavy".
The Times noted that the remaining carvings had "a somewhat heavy dignity" but that the stone was "in an excellent state of preservation".
It is with a somewhat heavy heart that I settle down to watch the entire series of Ross Kemp: Return to Afghanistan.
Click here to watch video One cannot help but approach the first Vince Vaughn film of the new year with a somewhat heavy heart.
And then there were those who headed out into the fray, by most reports a somewhat heavy, icy, windblown snowfall that few would dare to describe as magical — but potentially ripe with opportunity.
Previously, it was a somewhat heavy and loud click.
And despite being a somewhat heavy car (and feeling that way when you hit one of those decreasing-radius New Jersey off-ramps you swear were designed by ambulance-chasing lawyers), most times the Sport hangs on tight and comes through poised and ready for another go.
Simultaneously, in a somewhat heavy-handed comic subplot, her maid climbs the social ladder by going off with a poet (Hal Cazalet).
"It's a somewhat heavy-handed approach to get some shock value out of the game's story," said Pete Davison, contributing editor at gaming website GamePro.com Although the organisation says the game's storyline is far removed from real events, one level is set in London in which soldiers chase Russian mercenaries through the Underground.
To be sure, a prosecutor carries a somewhat heavier responsibility in the maintenance of the standards of criminal justice than does counsel for the defense.
Various lace-making centres at different times have produced laces specifically in the Spanish style, which generally denotes a somewhat heavier than usual type of lace.
The thick-billed, or Brünnich's, murre (U. lomvia), with a somewhat heavier beak, often nests farther north, to Ellesmere Island and other islands within the Arctic Circle, where the common murre is absent.
