The phrase "a formal development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing a structured or systematic approach to creating or evolving something, such as a project, idea, or theory.
Example: "The research paper outlines a formal development of the theoretical framework that underpins the study."
Alternatives: "a structured approach" or "a systematic progression".
In a marathon session just before Thanksgiving, the council drew up a formal development agreement whereby the city would sell the land to Hantz Farms at slightly over 8 cents per square foot.
(Russell and Restall (2010) offer a formal development.
A formal development process for logic controllers using Signal Interpreted Petri Nets and FPGA technology is presented.
We view this work as leading towards a formal development methodology to allow the refinement of Handel-C programs from formal specifications.
We describe a reversible stack based virtual machine designed as an execution platform for a sequential programming language used in a formal development environment.
The proposed approach is validated by a formal development of the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) undertaken within the ICT DEPLOY project.
His compositions and types, once established, were repeated again and again with few indications of any formal development.
The purpose of this supplement is a concise, formal development of the basic notions of learning theory so as to make mathematical treatments of the subject more accessible to the reader.
Normally, a compound picked for formal development has a 10% chance of making it to the start of phase II clinical testing.
In the narrative that so many of us learned in school, the upheavals of the modernist epoch were, above all, formal developments, autonomous events within each discipline.
The other, Greenberg's, posited an inevitability of formal development in painting, through progressive styles that were ever more attuned to the medium's material givens of flatness and pigmentation and ever more averse to any sort of reference or illusion.
