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The phrase "a useful proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a significant or beneficial part of a whole, often in contexts related to data, resources, or contributions.
Example: "A useful proportion of the budget was allocated to community development projects, ensuring their success."
Alternatives: "a significant portion of" or "a beneficial share of".
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We demonstrate that a useful proportion of zebra finch EST-SSRs are likely to be polymorphic, and that they can be used to build a linkage map.
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The proportion of occurrences of motifs in each class is not a useful predictor of the proportion of sites in each class, neither for individual classes (see Figure 5), nor for the total in the preferred classes (see Figure 6).
SATP was shown to be a useful monitor of the proportion of viable cells in an activated sludge and a toxicity indicator complementary to the SOURNMAX : SOURTOX ratio and similar in principle to the commercial Microtox® toxicity test.
Although standard estimates of model fit (R2) are not available for mixed models, we calculated the likelihood ratio R2 (
Thus, hospital-wide SMRs do not provide a useful indication of the proportion of avoidable deaths in a trust.
This shows that a proactive strategy is a useful way of increasing the proportion of smokers recruited into treatment.
Some participants said the KIS was only useful to "a certain proportion of society" who were already fairly clued up on higher education.
We observe that the collection of machine learning algorithms had a higher proportion of useful predictors, nine out of ten compared with around half of the humans.
This is a reasonable approach when the majority of the contents can be counted and measured, but not very useful when a large proportion of the contents is unidentifiable and/or immeasurable, as in this study.
A significant body of evidence has accumulated demonstrating that antagonism of VEGF and its downstream pathways is clinically useful in a significant proportion of patients with metastatic clear cell carcinoma of the kidney.
Compared to other methods, a very high proportion of useful sequences (more than 90% with some primer couples) is obtained.
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