Sentence examples for representing a substantial portion from inspiring English sources

I was dismayed to read this article during this particular week, in which I am required, as a self-employed professional, to write a check representing a substantial portion of my income for my quarterly estimated income tax payment.

At the end of April, interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier released a document indicating that three of nine companies representing a "substantial portion" of the Canadian telecom market received nearly 1.2 million requests in 2011 alone.

The abyssal zone (between 4,000 and 6,000 metres) represents a substantial portion of the oceans.

Again, we can't definitively say how much of MySpace's growth was due to Imeem, but it's likely that it represented a substantial portion of it.

We have recently demonstrated that the triceps surae muscles energy cost (ECTS) represents a substantial portion of the total metabolic cost of running (Erun).

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) represent a substantial portion of knowledge from human tutors, therefore they are able to provide a better learning guidance than Computer Assisted Instructions (CAI).

No matter how well they are designed, all civil engineering structures will deteriorate over time and lifetime maintenance expenses represent a substantial portion of the total lifetime cost of most structures.

Stock awards represent a substantial portion of executive compensation.

Deletion variants appear to arise more readily when a larger insert is present, and can represent a substantial portion of the total virus recovered even from an initial transfection [3].

The percentage of annotated An. funestus ESTs (41.2%) obtained in this analysis is similar to that observed in other large assembled EST data sets of non-mammalian species suggesting that the un-annotated contigs and even the singletons could represent a substantial portion of An. funestus transcriptome [8], [10].

Chronic depression represents a substantial portion of depressive disorders and is associated with severe consequences.