The phrase "assigns a large" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is allocating or designating a significant amount of something, such as resources, tasks, or responsibilities.
Example: "The manager assigns a large number of projects to the team each quarter to ensure productivity."
Alternatives: "allocates a significant" or "designates a substantial".
For example, Euclidean geometry assigns a large role to ruler-and-compass constructions, which manipulate geometric shapes.
In these cases, the adjusted survival estimate can easily become unreliable, as the adjustment assigns a large weight to an unreliable age-specific survival estimate.
Those weights corresponding to instances x for which h(x → ) assigns a large probability mass (near 1) to the correct class are decreased substantially more than those for which h(x → ) assigns a small probability mass.
Dr. Steven Pinker, who assigns a larger role to genetics in shaping behavior in his new book, "The Blank Slate," said it was not Boas but his disciples, including the anthropologists Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead and Ashley Montagu, who "helped establish the blank-slate, social-constructionist, antibiology mindset of the social sciences".
The first principal component y i yields a wealth index that assigns a larger weight to assets that vary the most across households so that an asset found in all households is given a weight of zero [24].
MNet assigns a larger weight on the 6-th network as compared to the weights for the other networks.
All these three methods give a smaller Fmax value to the 7-th network than to the 6-th; both MNet and SW assign a smaller weight to the 7-th network than to the 6-th, but ProMK assigns a larger weight to the 7-th network than to the 6-th.
Police officials, who determined that officers assigned to control the 1992 demonstration were "lethargic at best," said they had assigned a large security detail, heavily weighted with supervisors, to oversee tomorrow's rally.
McRae was one of nine local circuit judges but "presided over thirty per cent of the capital cases because he assigned a large number to himself," according to a 1995 Boston University Law Review paper by Stephen Bright, an Atlanta-based human-rights attorney.
Does it make sense for a liberal arts college or university to assign a large share of its scarce admissions places to students who, on average, fail to take full advantage of academic opportunities?
Re "3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa" (news article, June 1), about the widespread rape of Okinawan women by American servicemen in World War II: I served with the 81st Seabees during the invasion of the island, and when the island had been secured, our battalion was assigned a large group of Okinawan civilian men and women, who worked for us.
