The phrase "an impressive proportion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or noteworthy percentage of a particular group or category.
Example: "An impressive proportion of the participants reported an increase in satisfaction after the program."
Alternatives: "a significant percentage of" or "a notable share of".
It moves some 300,000 passengers a day, an impressive proportion of the city's 2.1m inhabitants.Property prices have yet to regain their pre-bust high, but have surged this year alone by as much as 40%.
The rare longitudinal studies on sexual behaviors have found an impressive proportion of participants reporting inconsistent data both for the occurrence of sexual behaviors as well as for their age at first time, thus raising issues about the accuracy and validity of some of the knowledge on adolescent sexual behavior we claim from the current literature.
But that still means an impressive proportion of those receiving gongs this year will be working in only one postcode: is it really the case that SW1 contains such a high concentration of people who go "beyond the call of duty" in their service?
As the scenes are recalled, I trust you will agree that an impressive proportion of all such footage is about animals doing what they need to do to get food to sustain themselves.
The strengths of this study are that an impressive proportion of TB patients underwent HIV-testing and were included in the analysis, and as the data comes from a routine TB program setting the results reflect the reality on the ground.
Hence, this strongly indicates that archaeal and bacterial chromosomes contain an impressive proportion of recently acquired foreign genes (including ORFans, that is open reading frames without matches in current sequence databases) coming from a still largely unexplored reservoirs [ 10].
While that's an impressive proportion from a channel which didn't exist a decade ago, there's still plenty of scope for improvement.
The impressive proportion of unplanned pregnancies should be tempered by the fact that 64% of mothers with an unplanned pregnancy recalled that, when they first knew about the pregnancy, they were in fact happy about the prospect of having that baby (Table 3).
Nimbly avoiding the excesses of melodrama and the recessiveness of mumblecore, Chan and his likably low-key cast navigate hairpin turns from drama to comedy to outright farce with an impressive sense of proportion.
A recent estimate, and this just for one endosymbiont, Wolbachia, indicates that 66% of insect species may be infected with the bacterium, representing an impressive and considerable proportion of current worldwide biodiversity [ 29].
