"disproportionately few" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is much less than you would expect it to be based on the size of the whole. For example, "Despite the size of the population, there were disproportionately few people in the area who voted."
But at more than two hours, the show's tasty morsels are disproportionately few.
And there are disproportionately large numbers of people in education, and disproportionately few in service occupations.
Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba apart, there are disproportionately few Mexican actresses at the top of the tree.
But I've realised something: when I think about the great novelists translated into English from other languages, disproportionately few of the names I come up with are women's.
Detailed research from Directors UK has found that only 3.5 per cent of British directors (214 out of 6,032) are of black and minority ethnic (BAME) heritage and that they direct disproportionately few (1.5 per cent) TV programmes.
Although she is aware that there are disproportionately few women at the top of the choreographic profession, especially in ballet, she is reluctant to see this as a conspiracy – a "giant thumb keeping women down".
Within the exurbanised peninsula, there were disproportionately fewer individuals of species with large home range sizes.
Though applications from Wales remain low, Welsh applicants receive disproportionately fewer offers compared with other UK applicants, despite achieving similar GCSE and A-level grades.
This leads us into the wider conversation as to why, despite having a significantly enlarged entry this year (a 36percentnt increase on the 60 books submitted in 2012) we received disproportionately fewer from women, of which many were technically fantasy.
Despite the two universities' extensive efforts to increase the diversity of their intake, new research shows there are still swaths of the country with low rates of application and disproportionately fewer offers.
His reference to votes, not seats, seemed significant, since it acknowledged tacitly that the wide dispersion of Liberal Democrat support across the country might mean that his party would get disproportionately fewer seats in an election that was contested on a constituency-by-constituency basis.
