The phrase "a number of drastic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to several significant or extreme changes or actions.
Example: "The company implemented a number of drastic measures to improve its financial situation."
Alternatives: "several extreme" or "a variety of severe".
Despite a number of drastic staff cuts, asset sales and financings with terms bordering on usury, Excite was ultimately overwhelmed by its $1.3 billion in debt and filed in September for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws.
Like me, lots of the people at this party are only in their late teens or early-to-mid-twenties, yet – even within their short adult lives – Ireland has made a number of drastic about-turns on drug policy.
Like me, lots of the people at this party are only in their late teens or early-to-mid-20s, yet—even within their short adult lives Ireland has made a number of drastic about-turns on drug policy.
Site 34 had an elevated number of drastic changes in properties as a result of the broad diversity of amino acid substitutions (figure 4).
There are a number of reasons for this drastic improvement – including changes of manager, formation and starting line-up – but among the most pertinent is their lack of European commitments.
(Interview with E, project director for the eating disorder project) The latitude afforded to the project leaders in developing their programs means that the translation from the project plan on paper to action in practice can be done in a number of ways: as a drastic reorganization, in phases, or first as a project with later spoken or unspoken plans for integration into the system.
In the years leading up to 1776, a number of events led to a drastic change in the diet of the American colonists.
It has been shown in a number of plant species that a drastic increase in oleic acid in the oil can be achieved at the expense of the PUFA by mutating or genetically down-regulating the oleoyl Δ12 ER desaturase (FAD2).
These mandates have already had drastic effects on a number of colleges and universities, which offer inexpensive, defined-cap plans to their healthy, youthful students.
However, this is due to the structure of the generated data, while various influences alter the challenges imposed by the data, the one affecting SI most - a small number of rather drastic outliers - was not contained in the scenarios.
In the early 1900s, by her own account, her caddish first husband had stashed her in a tiny room for four hours a day, refusing to let her out until she had finished a requisite number of pages — a drastic measure, but one that resulted in a novel a year for six years.
