The phrase "a more thorough method" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when comparing methods and emphasizing that one is more detailed or comprehensive than another.
Example: "After reviewing the results, we decided to implement a more thorough method for data collection to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "a more comprehensive approach" or "a more detailed technique."
But for the first time this year, state education officials used a more thorough method of tracking students, made possible by technological improvements.
As governor, Christie Whitman spent about $500 million and considerable political capital to implement a more thorough method known as the dynamometer test, which uses a treadmill to measure carbon monoxide and nitrous oxide, so the state could attain pollution levels set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act.
We decided against a more thorough method for topology reconstruction, partly for computational expediency and partly because rate estimation is thought to be fairly robust to small phylogenetic error.
Overall, our data confirm directional RNA deep sequencing as a more thorough method for analyzing transcriptional regulation in cyanobacteria and indicate that further studies using different environmental conditions and mutant strains will yield novel information about Anabaena gene regulation.
A more thorough method of rehydrating figs is to simmer them for several minutes in water or fruit juice.
Skins had been used for writing material even earlier, but a new, more thorough method of cleaning, stretching, and scraping made possible the use of both sides of a manuscript leaf, leading to the supplanting of the rolled manuscript by the bound book (codex).
In his own country the king paid particular attention to agriculture and fruit growing, improved the administrative system, and developed more thorough methods of training scribes.
Although Celera's 'shotgun' sequencing approach was inferior to the HGP's more thorough methods, anger turned to reluctant admiration for Venter as he challenged and kept up with the massive forces of the HGP.
However, as smaller pumps are implemented in complex fluids like blood, more thorough methods are needed to adequately assess the pump performance and hemocompatibility of these new devices.
Yet the trend has been in the opposite direction, as Chinese ruler Xi Jinping centralizes all power to himself and the government experiments with ever more thorough methods of political and social control.
A more thorough review of methods for the detection of local structural similarities can be found in Najmanovich et al. and references therein.
