The phrase "a set of stocks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or group of stocks, typically in the context of finance or investment.
Example: "Investors often diversify their portfolios by purchasing a set of stocks from various industries."
Alternatives: "a collection of stocks" or "a group of stocks".
Yet these, I think, are mere distractions, a set of stock and brutish archetypes.
Even less frequently, he would call on a cold winter evening with a set of stock apologies, possibly ignited by a fight he was having with someone else.
The significance of the fabula Atellana is that it introduced a set of stock characters, such as Maccus and Bucco, which were thought to be the direct ancestors of many of the Italian commedia dell'arte characters.
This forms part of a brilliant essay on the easy answers routinely served up by the regulars of Sunday talk, a set of stock responses that includes "There are no easy answers".
Ms. Lee identifies the motif as one modeled on a set of stock tableaus popular in the period; she places the exact scene on the southern bank of West Lake, where the well known Jingci temple stood.
A Northwestern State University historian has found no evidence of abuse or neglect, though a set of ankle stocks was evidence of punishment.
Not that this prevented them from having a go at Miller, who might as well have been made to testify from a set of medieval stocks.
This technique originally had been applied to cutting-stock problem, which consists of cutting a set of available stock lengths to meet customer orders for items in required lengths and quantities with the objective of minimizing the wasted material [18].
Sometimes when the viewer thinks he is seeing a continuous sequence of real events, he may actually be seeing some genuine material onto which has been grafted a set of old stock shots lifted from some film library.
