The phrase "a few breakthroughs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to several significant advancements or discoveries in a particular field or context.
Example: "The research team reported a few breakthroughs in their study of renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "several advancements" or "a couple of discoveries".
"We're still a few breakthroughs away," he says.
After years of critics' preaching about the need to rationalize the system, now there are finally a few breakthroughs.
Naylor's had a few breakthroughs.
"I've had a few breakthroughs recently which I won't talk about," he told Stephen Sackur, "but I am going to make another record.
Madisch said the site, which attracts 1.4 million uploads of papers per month and 1,300 data sets uploaded every few days, had led to a few breakthroughs.
This seems to be an important contextual aspect and a potential area to be pursed further by researchers because quite a few breakthroughs of niche innovations especially in IT in the global scenario seem to be coming from academic projects.
But there will also be a few breakthrough products that will tackle disease in fundamentally different ways.
Mr. Robertson said top-level contemporary ink paintings on paper now sold for $20,000 to $100,000, with only a few breakthrough artists achieving surprising sales records in the millions every now and again.
Despite a few breakthrough performances during the early '20s, Anderson, like so many other black artists, had grown frustrated with the limits that segregation imposed on her musical training and career opportunities.
Patients and providers can expect to see the launch of a few breakthrough treatments in the near future.
A great deal of ink has been spilled on this topic (a Google search for "emerging markets war for talent" returns over 2.3 million hits representing companies like Walmart (WMT), Apple (APPL) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)), but I think we hit on a few breakthrough ideas during our discussion in Shanghai.
