The phrase "a pair of different" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to two items or entities that are distinct from each other in some way.
Example: "She bought a pair of different shoes for the event, one red and one blue."
Alternatives: "a couple of distinct" or "two unlike".
The much-maligned film is a treasure; it's available on a pair of different releases.
The Letter introduces a robust control design method to synchronize a pair of different uncertain chaotic systems.
In the food colour preference test, the catfish were presented the shrimp flesh in a pair of different colours at a time.
Severino could be much more than that of course, a hurler described as fearless, who attacks the strike zone with a live fastball that jumps out on hitters, and a pair of different looking breaking balls that feature varying speeds.
Each matrix cell corresponds to a pair of different species and gradation of blue-red colors depict the species-to-species estimated association strength measured at correlation scale.
Thus, the LC between a pair of different vehicle types cannot be considered as the average of LC between the pairs of corresponding similar vehicle types.
A pair of very different shows by wildly different artists both turn to words and their meanings for inspiration.
Any answer must navigate a pair of remarkably different pictures of the war.
It was not exactly a British Invasion reprise, but a pair of very different U.K. acts accounted for two of 2011's biggest U.S. success stories.
nytimes.com/world DOT EARTH: Warming and Storms A pair of very different climate studies -- one physical, one social -- illustrate two uncomfortable, and related, realities confronting society as it grapples with possible responses to human-driven global warming.
White also finds refreshment in contemplating certain artists from the past who deliberately veered away from the mainstream, his primary examples being a pair of very different 1960s and '70s Conceptualists, Stephen Kaltenbach and Lee Lozano (1930-99).
