The phrase "a formal comprehensive" is not correct as it lacks a noun to complete the idea.
It could be used in contexts where you are describing a type of document or report that is both formal and comprehensive, but it needs to be part of a larger phrase.
Example: "The committee submitted a formal comprehensive report on the findings of the investigation."
Alternatives: "a detailed formal" or "an extensive formal".
Until recently [28] the genus Myrmekiaphila had received no attention by way of a formal comprehensive taxonomic revision; only five species were described over the last 125 years, yet arachnologists had long recognized that the group contained a number of new species.
However, even when the material is available, the concerted organisation of this into a formal, comprehensive and sustainable system has only taken place in a limited number of cases.
The remarks were Mr. Powell's broadest acknowledgment yet that his United Nations presentation, which the Bush administration saw as a formal and comprehensive case for the Iraq war, was based at least in part on erroneous information.
We did not conduct a formal systematic comprehensive review.
Clinical examinations findings were sometimes briefly mentioned at staff handover, but a formal and comprehensive communication expected at handover was never seen.
Since then, clarifications and updates to the ASCO/CAP HER2 testing guidelines have been issued, and ASCO and CAP convened to conduct a formal and comprehensive review and revised the guidelines in 2013 [ 8].
Our review was not conducted as a formal systematic comprehensive review; rather, we focused on primary and grey literature presenting academic, health practitioner and First Nations viewpoints on the topic available from literature databases (i.e., PubMed, Web of KnowledgeSM) as well as the internet search engine Google.
Goddard refuted claims that she declined to provide oral evidence to the committee and said her focus on providing "formal, comprehensive reports" to the Home Office was a means of maintaining her "judicial independence".
While Indian associations run various events, the Young Indian Culture Group is believed to be the only formal, comprehensive Indian school on the Island.
ICCVAM has contributed to the acceptance of 33 alternative test methods, including 17 based on formal comprehensive evaluations (ICCVAM 2010).
In Eastern European countries with recent concentrated epidemics, mainly in IDU (such as Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia), formal comprehensive systems have been set up recently, using from the outset the concept of second generation surveillance.
