The phrase "a few divisions of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small number of subdivisions or sections within a larger organization, group, or system.
Example: "The company has a few divisions of research and development that focus on different technologies."
Alternatives: "several branches of" or "a couple of sectors of".
Gareth dropped down a few divisions to work under the Class of 92.
By the time the hijacked cell had undergone a few divisions, all trace of its previous self would have been erased; its several-times-great-granddaughters would have transformed themselves into the new species.Synthesising the genome proved reasonably easy.
Under Mr. Rumsfeld, this war would be different: a choreography of a few divisions, backed by precision bombing from an array of warplanes and missiles, all steered toward their targets by a constellation of sensors in the sky that gave commanders a round-the-clock look at the battlefield.
If this was the only mechanism for retaining heterochromatin, in RNAi-deficient cells, H3K9me levels should dramatically decline within a few divisions due to the progressive dilution of pre-existing H3K9 methylated nucleosomes (<1% of wt levels in seven divisions).
Our data indicate that a few divisions higher in the lineage, cells of different retinal cell types share a common progenitor cell.
THERE are few divisions of the book industry with a worse reputation than business publishing.
Considering that Volvo is one of the few divisions of parent company Ford Motor that is enjoying healthy sales, it makes the success of the XC90 more impressive still.
Hybrid eggs laid by female Drosophila pseudoobscura mated to male D. miranda degenerate within a few hours of fertilisiation [ 38], and likewise eggs from crosses between D. virilis and D. littoralis arrest during the first few divisions of cells [ 39].
Langton set out to forge a simpler and more elegant chaptering of the Bible, one with fewer divisions of a more consistent size — but that might nonetheless be keyed to significant transitions in the text.
(A contemporary teacher of literature, facing students who have multiple paperback and electronic editions of the assigned books, knows this difficulty well). Langton set out to forge a simpler and more elegant chaptering of the Bible, one with fewer divisions of a more consistent size but that might nonetheless be keyed to significant transitions in the text.
