The phrase "as a significant number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a considerable quantity or proportion of something in a context where numerical significance is being discussed.
Example: "The survey results indicated that as a significant number of participants preferred option A over option B, we will proceed with the former."
Alternatives: "a considerable number" or "a large number".
Keele is not unique in this respect, as a significant number of universities choose to be non-aligned, a fact frequently overlooked in the media and political engagement with the sector.
Qatar and the China Investment Corporation will become the two biggest shareholders in Songbird, having agreed to take up £275m of preference shares as well as a "significant" number of ordinary shares.
Based on electricity usage, annual growth may really be as high as 12-13%; and the true inflation rate is probably above 5%, as a significant number of prices are still controlled in some way by the government.
Why would anyone strain the moral criterion of last resort, as a significant number of religious people do, in a way that makes it clear that virtually no military action, short of repelling perhaps a full-scale enemy attack already launched on the nation's territory, would ever meet it?
The logic was that investors had bought securities with the promise that they would have the protection of American securities laws, and it was unfair to remove that protection so long as a significant number of Americans still owned the shares.
So on the one hand, there's the hostility or lack of interest that keeps fantastic films made across 20 miles of grey English Channel ghettoised in a handful of cinemas in major cities – the likes of A Prophet, Tell No One or Days of Glory seen by a fraction of the audience who would enjoy them – just as a significant number don't even make it as far as a week's run at the Renoir.
The concurrent increase in the sizes of the human, Capitella, and Drosophila orthologomes when tested on sponge and cnidarian proteomes indicate that both the metazoan-LCAs and the eumetazoan-LCAs acquired a significant number of novel genes.
Untreated water sources were sampled and analyzed then QMRA modeled as well, since a significant number of the community (∼9%) still use them for potable water supplies.
As expected, a significant number of genes related to abiotic stress, such as osmotic, temperature, light, water, wounding, and oxidation.
"We see the objective as having a significant number of small installations in place rather than solar farms".
For food stylist Gregor McMaster, as for a significant number of Scots, clearing meant a last-minute opportunity to change direction.
