The phrase "applying a portion of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the implementation or utilization of a specific part of something, such as a budget, resource, or concept.
Example: "The committee is applying a portion of the funds to improve community facilities."
Alternatives: "utilizing a part of" or "implementing a segment of".
Rahway is among the 86 districts eligible for the new money, and the superintendent, Frank R. Buglione, said he planned to apply and use a portion of his extra $400,000 in stimulus money to provide all-day programs for 3- and 4-year-olds to another 75 children.
The rates are applied to a portion of the assessed values that the city recalculates once a year using a complex set of rules, most of which are mandated by state law.
The method was applied to a portion of a major industrial area located in southern Italy.
A probabilistic approach is applied to a portion of data encrypted with a different key to ensure reliability of query results.
Specifically, the system's uncontrolled and discontinuous flows along manifolds compose majority of the transfer trajectories, and then optimal controls are applied to a portion of the discontinuous trajectories to differentially correct them to match continuity.
By realizing capital gains today, an investor can effectively reduce the tax rate applied to a portion of the future interest income to the current 15% capital gains tax rate, instead of holding the portfolio and subjecting the interest income to a much higher income tax rate.
This paper shows that a judiciously designed toll applied to a portion of the lanes of a highway can generate a Pareto improvement before using the revenue, a sufficient condition being that drivers with a high value of time travel at the peak of rush hour.
Therefore it is possible that an incorrect scaling was applied to a portion of the data presented in [14].
Electroporation is routinely applied to a portion of the muscle, leading to transfection of cell layers around the site of injection.
