The phrase "a specific percentage of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular portion or fraction of a whole, often in contexts involving statistics, finance, or research.
Example: "The study found that a specific percentage of participants reported feeling more productive after implementing the new software."
Alternatives: "a certain percentage of" or "a defined percentage of".
The dividends on preferred stock are usually fixed at a specific percentage of face value.
Schools must break down results by grade, economic level, ethnicity and disability, with a specific percentage of students in each subgroup required to achieve grade-level performance until -- at least theoretically -- all would do so by 2014.
Several states in the northwest, mid-west and south-east generally prohibit firearms where alcohol is served, but then include caveats that allow firearms when a specific percentage of income of the establishment goes to business not related to alcohol.
But earmarking a specific percentage of funds to be spent on particular activities hampers the flexibility and effectiveness of the program, according to both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Government Accountability Office.
Mr. Sweeney said the nation's unions would push in 30 states for legislation, like that enacted last week in Maryland, requiring large corporations to pay a specific percentage of their payroll toward health insurance.
In practice, dollar-cost averaging involves investing a specific percentage of your lump sum at regular intervals over a given period.
The panel was not able to provide a specific percentage breakdown of hyponatremia patients into the four categories, but did provide a range of percentages for each category.
In the conquer procedure, the resulting sub-matrices U and V are then decomposed recursively in the same manner until the resulting sub-matrix (or sub-matrices) represents a bicluster in which each row and column contain a specific percentage, b, of 1s (Fig. 2).
Similarly, the effect of a specific percentage knockdown or overexpression of a particular enzyme or enzymes on the growth of E. coli cell was simulated.
Third, an algorithm considers all possible combinations of lower (L) and upper (U) levels, subject to a constraint on U that forces the total sensitivity to equal a specific percentage (e.g. 35%) of the acquired breathing signals.
Since the distribution of the RBM over the skeleton is both age- and patient-specific, ideally, this fraction should be individually measured, and a patient-specific percentage of the RBM in a certain VOI should be used for this method.
