The phrase "a string of updates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of updates or notifications that are related or occur in succession.
Example: "The software release included a string of updates that improved performance and fixed several bugs."
Alternatives: "a series of updates" or "a sequence of updates".
The two hour film, which will be filmed in various Mexican locations, is the latest in a string of updated Shakespeare movies including Ethan Hawke's Hamlet and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.
Retailers have issued a string of gloomy updates in recent weeks, with Mothercare, HMV and Currys and PC World parent Dixons Retail all warning on profits, while wine merchant Oddbins entered administration.
10 27am: Apple introduces a string of incremental updates to watchOS, including new watch faces with Pixar characters.
"Security forces will deal with the utmost decisiveness to law enforcement and the protection of state enterprises," tweeted the official account, through a string of 1984-ish updates.
The tools I use to keep track of new literature are Feedly, which allows me to subscribe to the RSS feeds of relevant journals; a string of PubMed updates, which capture any relevant literature published outside those journals; and Twitter, which helps me identify what literature the broader scientific community is talking about.
Over the next few days, anybody searching online using Google will see their traditional search results augmented by a string of constantly updating messages drawn from social networks, news sites and blogs.
This marks the latest in a string of live-action updates of Disney classics including Cinderella, Pete's Dragon, the forthcoming Beauty and the Beast and The Jungle Book, which grossed close to $1bn worldwide this year – almost matching The Lion King's box office tally in 1994.
Traditionally among the Christmas winners, Next set the tone for a string of gloomy January trading updates from clothing retailers when it warned that sales between 26 October and 24 December rose by just 0.4% year-on-year.
It is also, as I discovered while researching the book, fatal to good record keeping: creating a string of disconnection, context-free updates, rather than the kind of consistent narrative you might find on a blog.
Jackie Calmes reports that advisers to President Obama, drawing on a string of improved economic data, have updated their forecasts in recent days and now project that the economy will create two million jobs this year, reducing the unemployment rate to about 8 percent by year's end.
