The phrase "a pattern for many" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a model or example that is applicable or relevant to a large group of people or situations.
Example: "The new educational approach has become a pattern for many schools looking to improve student engagement."
Alternatives: "a model for many" or "a template for many".
Their pastors, Bill Hybels, at Willow Creek, and Rick Warren, at Saddleback, both now in their fifties, have created a pattern for many of the newer churches in everything from worship styles to programming.
In April 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris attacked Columbine High School in one of the largest school massacres in the US – setting a pattern for many that would follow.
Speaking at the opening of the Anglican primates' meeting in Canterbury, the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said: "In some parts of the Communion decline in numbers has been a pattern for many years.
The relationship between On Learned Ignorance and On Conjectures sets a pattern for the many shorter theoretical works Nicholas was to write in the two decades that followed.
"I am disturbed by the lack of response by the black community," Mr. Farthing said, speaking generally about a national pattern for many urban areas.
The positions are supposed to be temporary, but they have amounted to a holding pattern for many young Ph.D.'s who are either unable to find permanent jobs in research or need more time to assemble the kind of publishing record that such a job now requires.
Sulieman, another student who said his scholarship had been revoked, said the ministry of education in Bahrain called his father to order him home a couple of days after the protest, in a pattern repeated for many of the protesters.
Enhancing biodiversity with agri-environmental schemes is hypothesized to be more efficient in simple than complex landscapes, a pattern confirmed for many aboveground taxa.
Large successive crops of fruit on the same tree are rare, a pattern likely for many other tropical trees in other forests as well [34], [35], [51] [55].
The only exception to this trend was the analysis of the rbcL evolution in the thermotolerant cyanobacteria genus Synechococcus, which has shown an increase in the number of hydrophobic residues in the rbcLs of more thermotolerant strains – a pattern observed for many thermostable proteins [ 13].
This could explain why female mating and egg-fertilization behaviors decay rapidly in species with endosymbiont-induced asexuality (Stouthamer et al., 2010), a pattern reported for many haplodiploid species (Pijls et al., 1996; Arakaki et al., 2000; Pannebakker et al., 2004a, 2005; Jeong and Stouthamer, 2005; Russell and Stouthamer, 2011; this study).
