The phrase "advanced by a number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ideas, theories, or initiatives that have been promoted or put forward by multiple sources or individuals.
Example: "The new policy was advanced by a number of experts in the field, highlighting its importance for future research."
Alternatives: "proposed by several" or "put forward by a variety of".
He despaired of the range of proposals for "radical constitutional change being advanced by a number of rather improbable people".
ON SUNDAY, the New York Times published a piece examining an argument advanced by a number of economists that America sends too many people to college.
Still, it brought to mind a line of thinking that's been advanced by a number of observers, most memorably by Alan Richman in his scorching review of M. Wells.
Arendt's political thought cannot, in this sense, be identified either with the liberal tradition or with the claims advanced by a number of its critics.
This type of religious theodicy has been advanced by a number of Christians, with a variant of it being found, for example, in Peter van Inwagen's book, The Problem of Evil (2006, 85ff).
This kind of strategy was advanced by a number of authors from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, although there has been relatively little discussion of it since.[23] Kornblith 2008 provides a notable exception.
The elections to the party's central committee, a key Palestinian power centre, have resulted in advances by a number of West Bank and Gaza figures that came to prominence after the late Mr Arafat's return to historical Palestine as part of the Oslo process.
Russia's goal throughout the MH17 fiasco has been to raise a reasonable shadow of doubt by advancing a number of alternative (some bizarre) explanations, and hoping that one or two might stick.
The second position, advanced in a number of variants that differ significantly in substance, for example, by Dworkin [2004], Murphy [2001], and Perry [2001], contends that we should adopt the concept of law that best advances our political aims.
From the 1970s onwards, a succession of theoretical models from behaviour to development to complexity has been advanced by researchers across a number of disciplines that collectively, greatly improve our understanding (Smith and Petley 2009).
The idea that pheomelanin might play a role in melanoma was advanced a number of years ago by epidemiologists.
