The phrase "abolishes much of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the removal or elimination of a significant portion of something, often in a legal or policy context.
Example: "The new legislation abolishes much of the outdated regulations that hindered innovation."
Alternatives: "eliminates a large part of the" or "removes much of the".
In contrast, adjustment for BMI had a large impact on the estimated means (Table 1) and, given the correlation between BMI and CRP (r = 0.28, P < 10−6 for control subjects), abolished much of the difference observed between the type 2 diabetic and other groups.
Mobutu was strongly in favour of centralisation and one of his first acts, in 1965, were to reunify provinces and abolish much of their independent legislative capacity.
When the fall of Communism starts history moving again, boredom is abolished, much to the detriment of many Russians, especially elderly pensioners like Aglaya.
In the course of the twentieth century, capital punishment was abolished in much of the world, including all of Western Europe, but not in the United States.
The results were a steady income upon which reliable budgets could be based and an erosion in the power of the diets which, although never abolished, lost much of the influence they had held in the past.
Alteration of gene expression results in recruitment of SAF-B, and RNAse treatment of nuclei abolishes much, but not all, of the SAF-B chromosomal binding.
Media censorship was abolished in 1989, and much of the media flourished as the economy became more liberalized.
Ground rents are a medieval relic, sadly still going in England but abolished (like leasehold itself) in much of the former empire.
In September 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott abolished the science ministry, handing much of the science portfolio to Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane.
Guided supposedly by the torch of reason and perhaps also by bitter memories of his many unsuccessful attempts to win the Prix de Rome, he succeeded in abolishing the Académie Royale and with it much of the old regime's system for training artists and providing them with patronage.
