The phrase "a spate of projects" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or large number of projects occurring within a specific timeframe.
Example: "The company announced a spate of projects aimed at improving sustainability in their operations."
Alternatives: "a surge of projects" or "an influx of projects."
The Garden State Technology Center is one of a spate of projects in New Jersey intended to recycle industrial space into cyber-oriented space.
The plan's goals may take as long as two decades to complete, city officials say, but a spate of projects are under way, or expected to get under way soon.
The Secaucus and Edison buildings are part of a spate of projects totaling 5.2 million square feet now under construction in the 11-county northern and central New Jersey market.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS A loose alliance of 500 scientific organizations has declared 2009 the Year of Science and is hoping the effort will lead to a spate of projects to put science and technology in reach of the public.
There is a spate of residential projects planned in the West 50's, mainly on or off Eighth and Ninth Avenues, industry professionals said.
A spate of hotel projects are under way or will begin by the fall, ranging from a Hampton Inn on Route 1 and 9 in Linden to a Hyatt atop a pier in Jersey City.
It is the latest in a recent spate of projects linked to Emancipation and the Civil War that has contributed to a national conversation about that war's legacy, including Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and an exhibition, "The Civil War and American Art," at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.
Experts said the latest outrage was fueled by last year's firing of Bobby Knight, Indiana's basketball coach, and by astronomical increases in coaching salaries and a spate of expensive construction projects.
But the way in which China weathered the crisis — with the injection of $588 billion of stimulus money into the economy and an explosion of lending from state banks — led to a spate of large infrastructure projects that may never justify their cost.
The government and Chinese economists close to it have played down the scope of any effort to resuscitate the economy, but a spate of new infrastructure projects and subsidies for consumer auto purchases last month indicate a stimulus program already is underway.
In the years since Brassworks opened in 2007, there has been a spate of other commercial projects in town that are aimed at transforming tired old buildings into the type of office space that reflect how Montclair and its residents see themselves — suburban but sophisticated, and modern but not hard-edged.
