The phrase "a periphery of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is located on the outer edge or boundary of a particular area or concept.
Example: "The research focused on the periphery of urban development, examining the effects on surrounding rural communities."
Alternatives: "an edge of" or "a boundary of".
As an introductory essay to the show's catalogue explains, these artists are "working on a periphery of a periphery of a periphery". Where are these multiple peripheries?
Center Moriches, a suburban community with a periphery of farmland, is midway between Montauk and the Nassau-Queens border.
According to the recent experimental research, the propagation of the extraordinary wave (X wave) was observed in a periphery of the plasma near the substrate.
The observed unique core shell structure was characterized as Y2Hf7O17 type in a core and Y2Hf2O7 type at a periphery of the oxide particles.
GE may have developed a similar model in which a periphery of companies is built around a core "money" company or bank (GE Capital) that attracts capital, earns high returns, and feeds the growth of other units.
Appellees' argument assumes the existence of a periphery of the Self-Incrimination Clause which protects a person against incrimination not only against past or present transgressions but which supplies insulation for a career of crime about to be launched.
From the 10th millennium B.C. through the second millennium, expansive cores were always fringed by what analysts often call a "semi-periphery" of rather less developed societies, and beyond that, a "far periphery" of groups less developed still (and beyond that, societies that remained altogether untouched by the growing system).
"The Hand has a nice periphery of family.
The stability of the core businesses of the portfolio entrepreneur with a changing periphery of businesses influences the startup of firms and the choice of the partners.
Low-degree nodes, instead, being the majority of nodes, form a generic periphery of lower mean degree than the core [46, 47].
Thus, we obtained surgical samples from a margin (periphery) of the tumor.
