'a substantial reading' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about the amount of material someone has read, as in the sentence: "She did a substantial reading on the subject before presenting her findings."
The sense of value for money offered by a longer book used to be a consideration in the days of commercial sagas, literary agent Clare Alexander admits, and may still influence some readers today – but she says this desire for a substantial read doesn't explain the growth in the literary novel.
It does not contain a substantial open reading frame and might therefore code for a structural RNA.
She also revealed that her preparation involved some substantial reading.
This was despite the fact that all children could read and comprehend all names in the experiment and despite substantial reading proficiency in the older children.
Because all samples have substantial read coverage, a minimum of 160,000,000 nucleotides per sample mapped to the transcriptome, this corresponds to an average of 2.5 reads/bp for all transcripts.
As reading attitudes focus on an emotional or feeling-related aspect of reading, they are conceptually viewed as a substantial part of reading motivation (Conradi et al. 2013; Schiefele et al. 2012; Wigfield and Guthrie 1997; Zeinab et al. 2011).
Moreover, despite formal training, a substantial minority of reading students will never learn to read at appropriate levels.
There was substantial read loss during data cleanup (78.6%), which, however, did not impede the analyses, because of the large number of initial sequences (over 4Mio).
As this approach requires substantial read-density, miRNA represented by few sequence reads will not be identified.
High-school children in Shanghai outscored those elsewhere by a substantial margin in reading, the report's focus.
