The phrase "adapted a host of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the incorporation or modification of various elements or ideas from different sources.
Example: "The researcher adapted a host of theories to create a comprehensive framework for understanding the phenomenon."
Alternatives: "incorporated numerous" or "modified a variety of".
It has adapted a host of measures to temporarily curb Beijing's notorious traffic and air pollution, including closing factories and government offices, and restricting motorists to driving on alternate days.
The human body, evolved to endure through periods of food scarcity, has adapted a host of methods to ensure that lost weight will be restored, the authors say.
He expected rats to adapt in a host of other ways, besides some of them growing to a large size.
How Sids respond to threats such as sea level rise, and the degree of support they receive, is indicative of how we, collectively, will adapt to a host of climate change impacts in the coming decades.
Dr. Kurt M. Fristrup, the assistant director of Cornell's bio-acoustics program, said the listening technology being tested on forest elephants could clearly be adapted to studies of a host of other animals.
Adapting the book offered a host of challenges for the theatre: "His experience in the war was not your All-Quiet-on-the-Western-Front-in-the-trenches experience.
Like other pathogens, A. pleuropneumoniae has adapted a number of strategies for scavenging host iron.
See also A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495, 529-530 (1935) (recognizing "the necessity of adapting legislation to complex conditions involving a host of details with which the national legislature cannot deal directly").
This little-seen biography of Wagner starring Alan Badel and Yvonne DeCarlo featured a host of Wagner works adapted by then-retired film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (who appears in a cameo conducting the "Ring" cycle, condensed down to a few minutes of screen time).
Many religious communities offer a host of resources: advice on adapting to the new environment and information regarding economic opportunities in the receiving society; help in obtaining jobs, housing, or loans; schools and language classes; and social services (e.g., Ebaugh et al. 2000; Munshi 2003; Hirschman 2004; Voas and Fleischmann 2012).
This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that subpopulations of virus adapted to a host are selected after passage through another vertebrate host.
