The phrase "a few patterns of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing specific examples or types of patterns in a particular context, such as art, behavior, or data analysis.
Example: "In our research, we identified a few patterns of consumer behavior that could influence our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "several types of" or "a couple of examples of".
Within a few patterns of the beat drop, he starts accelerating.
K-means cluster analysis identified a few patterns of transcriptional changes in healing tissues (Fig. 3).
Factor analysis applied to dietary data produces a few patterns of dietary intake that represent underlying independent dimensions of food and nutrient consumption.
There are a few patterns of the skin texture lines on the thumb, fingers, and the palm.
But they have identified a few patterns: exploration of the blurred line between virtual and actual lives; a focus on politics and environmental damage; the use of computer technology in making works; the merging of different genres, like performance art, film and sculpture.
But among those readers who filled out the calculator, a few patterns emerged: * Some of the most popular choices for budget cuts were administrative areas, including a reduction in recruiting expenses and a consolidation of retail stores on military bases.
As discussed previously in this article, in the absence of a pattern in NI, there are few patterns of molecular evolution in animal mtDNA indicative of deleterious mutation accumulation [but see Osada and Akashi (2012)].
The right panel of Figure 2 depicts a few typical patterns of spontaneous oscillations of the membrane potential.
Within a few months Patterns of Care surveys showed that over 80% of oncologists in North America had stopped using tamoxifen altogether for post-menopausal patients (Love, 2005).
The clustering results are summarized in Table 1 and only a few weekly patterns of dominant clusters are shown in Figure 12.
Before we can understand such an odd and simple conclusion we need to look first at a few gross patterns of consumption.
