The phrase "a number of paths" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple options or routes available in a particular context.
Example: "In our project, we have a number of paths we can take to achieve our goals."
Alternatives: "several routes" or "multiple options".
There are a number of paths through which the disease may enter the body, including inhalation, which was the way these patients were infected.
A little road went halfway into the cemetery, and a number of paths branched off from it, and both the road and the paths were hip-deep in broom sedge.
A small pond sat in the middle of the park, with water covering the intersection of a number of paths and unable to leach into the storm-sodden ground.
The result is that Stoppard has pulled off what he failed to do in his last, apparently more ambitious play, The Coast of Utopia: he brings alive the political history of the Eastern bloc, and makes vivid a number of paths not taken.
JUMP to.NET offers developers a number of paths for migrating to the.NET platform.
The signal arrives at the receiver node via a number of paths.
The report, parts of which were adopted into law soon after, recommended a number of path-breaking changes, including punishing crimes such as stalking and voyeurism with prison terms, requiring police officers to register every case of reported rape and making changes in the humiliating medical examinations carried out on rape victims.
Furthermore, it overcomes stringent initial condition constraints that are present in a number of path following control strategies described in the literature.
Route bundling is a relevant conceptual construct in a number of path-planning scenarios where the resources and means of transport are scarce/expensive, or where the environments are inherently hard to navigate due to limited space.
This is due to the path parameter estimation algorithm, which always estimates a number of outlier paths that appear at random in any single time snapshot.
The algorithm operates at the atom-level representation, finding a number of shortest paths [ 34, 35] between source and target metabolites and combining paths into branching, high-scoring pathways.
