The phrase "a number of different components" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple distinct parts or elements that make up a whole.
Example: "The project requires a number of different components, including software, hardware, and user interfaces."
Alternatives: "several distinct elements" or "various individual parts".
These systems employ a number of different components, including large parabolic concentrators and heat engines of the Stirling engine type (see above).
Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are typically composed of a number of different components, each of which should contribute significantly to the final algorithm's performance.
Inside the Plasma Vessel (PV) of W7-X there is a number of different components such as pipes, divertors, baffles and targets.
The platform consists of a number of different components.
The result of this is Microsoft for Startups, which includes a number of different components.
First, keep in mind that political oratory (or any other type of persuasive speech, which includes debate performances, interviews and even TV ads) is made up of a number of different components.
Drawing on cognitive theories of episodic retrieval (e.g., Norman and Bobrow 1979; Burgess and Shallice 1996; Johnson and Raye 2000), there are a number of different component processes that, if damaged, could cause difficulties with subjective memory.
The extent to which products with a substantial number of different components subject to third party testing may be evaluated to show compliance with an applicable rule, ban, standard, or regulation by third party testing of a subset of such components selected by a third party conformity assessment body.
A large number of different components are soon arriving and being assembled.
The model is activity-based which means that the cost of each manufacturing operation is calculated and then summed up so that the true £-per-hour factory cost rate as well as the exact unit cost (i.e. manufacturing cost) of an unlimited number of different components can be estimated.
