The phrase "proportion was higher" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an increase in some measure or amount from one period to another. For example, "The proportion of students attending summer school was higher this year than last year."
The proportion was higher (14.1 %) in those aged <40 years.
This proportion was higher for respondents who are exposed to chestnut culture within the family, and who value cultural services above other ecosystem services (ES) of forests.
This proportion was higher in the higher LIAP group at 37% of the study duration; however, these differences were not statistically significant (p = 0.666).
Similar to silt, the trend on clay was not stable; however, the proportion was higher on upper slope than lower slope position.
Similar to the other studies, the CNV detected were majority on the hotspots with recurrent breakpoints but the proportion was higher in this study.
This proportion was higher (10.9% -n = 13) among health care professionals in accordance with the timing of the vaccination campaign.
This proportion was higher for patients infected with pH1N1 (28%) than for seasonal H1N1 (18%) but the difference was not statistically significant (P = 0.28).
This proportion was higher for the SAQ version of the survey with 28 %, 28, 31%, and 31% unusande data across the four domains, respectively.
However, although the proportion was higher, the prevalence of resistant parasitaemia in children who had received IPTc was lower than that in control children because of the effect of IPTc in reducing the overall prevalence of parasitaemia in these children.
The mutSRE-fluc/LDLR-fluc proportion was higher in PC-3 cells than LNCaP cells (Fig. 5C), implying other transcription factors may also contribute to the differences in LDLR mRNA expression observed between these cell-lines (Fig. 5A).
The proportion was higher among women (49.1%) than men (10.2%).
