The phrase "a somewhat higher proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing comparative statistics or quantities, indicating that one amount is slightly greater than another.
Example: "In the recent survey, a somewhat higher proportion of participants preferred option A over option B."
Alternatives: "a slightly greater percentage" or "a marginally higher share".
The occupational category of "security guards and gaming surveillance officers," which includes jobs like Mr. Bruce's, has a somewhat higher proportion of older workers.
The most victimised came to suffer fewer crimes, but these crimes represented a somewhat higher proportion of the total burden than before.
The same assumption can fairly safely be made when it comes to most other OECD countries even if they spend a somewhat higher proportion of their disposable income on food.
Compared to the results of Tuononen and Sainio [14], our results suggest a somewhat higher proportion of studded tyres for adequate friction on wintry road surfaces, although the range suggested by Tuononen and Sainio includes 50% of vehicles with studded tyres.
However, a somewhat higher proportion of patients were female in the group receiving combination therapy.
The Cincinnati cohort also had a somewhat higher proportion of nonwhite children (89.1 vs. 71.0%).
It is encouraging that institutions in LICs have a significantly larger concentration of researchers and somewhat higher proportion of PhDs and that project teams tend to be larger than in higher-income countries.
This was probably the main reason for the somewhat higher proportion of cases with unknown extent of disease observed among women compared with men.
The somewhat higher proportion of women receiving Ca supplementation in that study could be attributed to the fact that those investigators interviewed exclusively high-risk women managed in tertiary teaching university hospitals.
This leads to somewhat higher proportions of people preferring a passive role and more frequent mismatch in retrospective measurement compared to prospective measurement.
