The phrase 'comprise most of' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to indicate that a group of items or people makes up a large part, but not necessarily all of a larger set of items or people. For example, "The Asian population in this city comprises most of the city's population."
Young Somalis present most of the programmes and comprise most of the 75,000 listeners.
De Soto soon became obsessively curious about the black market that seemed to comprise most of his countrymen's economic activity.
In fact, dollars comprise most of Asia's total reserves of more than $2 trillion.
As CityLab explains, while part of the car-free zone is already in place, it is due to expand in 2015 to comprise most of Madrid's central area.
It had more to lose, in particular a useful electoral alliance with the biggest Islamist party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, whose leaders comprise most of those on trial.
If you haven't heard of them, perhaps you don't fall into the coveted demographic of television viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 who comprise most of the show's audience.
November 1 Mr de la Rua and Mr Cavallo give details of new economic measures, including a debt swap that would comprise most of the £90bn public debt and offer boosts to consumer spending.
The eventual design is based on a European Space Agency diagram of how dark matter – which cannot be seen but is believed to comprise most of the universe – can be detected by the way light bends round it.
Rabobank will then pay $600m, or a bit more than the remaining book value, with the proceeds distributed to the shareholders of Farm Credit Services, who comprise most of its customers.It is easy to see the deal's logic for each side.
Without going much further it is hard to see how the Iraqi economy, which currently depends heavily on American grants and subsidies, can be put on a self-sustaining path.The six state-owned banks, which comprise most of the banking sector, are still in a sorry state.
Since independence in 1962 it has been plagued by coups, massacres and the killing of several presidents, against a backdrop of ethnic strife between the country's Tutsis, who make up a tenth of the 10m-plus population, and the Hutus, who comprise most of the rest.
