The phrase "action in a number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple instances or types of actions taken in various contexts or situations.
Example: "The organization has taken action in a number of areas to improve community engagement."
Alternatives: "action in several" or "action across multiple".
Families have launched legal action in a number of areas across England in an attempt to halt cuts to SEND budgets.
All this may seem quite alien to those in other countries, but progressive punishment is actually in action in a number of jurisdictions including Sweden and Germany.
The single-tailed surfactants did not produce any foaming action in a number of hydrocarbon solvents, nor was any micellar formation observed up to 100 mM concentrations.
"While we recognise there have been some significant achievements over the first 12 months of the plan, committee members are agreed that we need to accelerate action in a number of key areas to realise more gains," she said.
Together with China, and with the support of occasional allies such as South Africa and Brazil, it has succeeded in watering down U.N. action in a number of world crises.
Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, said the report "has called for action in a number of areas, including higher fines for firms that fail to co-operate with regulators, the need to examine gaps in the criminal law, and a much stronger governance framework at the Bank of England".
Menthol is also known to have analgesic actions in a number of painful conditions.
The Conference on Financing for Development proposed concrete actions in a number of areas aimed at increasing the level of resources mobilized for development and poverty reduction.
Apart from its classical functions, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (VD3), the hormonally active form of vitamin D, also has potent anti-proliferative, pro-apoptotic and pro-differentiation actions in a number of malignances (1).
ERα and ERβ have been found to have opposing actions in a number of scenarios, including regulation of the cyclin D promoter, and transcriptional activation at activating protein 1 (and) and stimulating protein 1 (SP1) response elements.
There is disagreement about the best way to describe the functions of the lateral cerebellum: It is thought to be involved in planning movement that is about to occur, in evaluating sensory information for action, and in a number of purely cognitive functions, such as determining the verb which best fits with a certain noun (as in "sit" for "chair").
