The phrase "advances in a number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing progress or improvements in various fields or areas of study.
Example: "The conference will focus on the latest advances in a number of scientific disciplines, including biology and physics."
Alternatives: "progress in several" or "developments in various".
What's more, the looming rules have triggered rapid advances in a number of lighting technologies.
Mardinly, Pégard and the other first author, postdoc Ian Oldenburg, constructed the holographic brain modulator by making technological advances in a number of areas.
Concurrent advances in a number of fields have fostered the development of bioprocesses for biochemical production.
The service, which is currently in private beta but available to the first 500 readers who sign up here, makes advances in a number of areas.
In recent years, his team has focused on "active and passive hybrid vibration isolation technology," achieving significant advances in a number of key areas.
This exchange between Hertz and Compton depended on more than 100 years of prior scientific advances in a number of disparate scientific fields.
"I have," he said, "done something towards this great advance in a number of ways, but without reaching any results of commercial value.
"Negotiations are well advanced in a number of transactions, which we expect to complete very shortly," Mr. Maxwell told shareholders at the company's annual meeting.
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.
This information is expected to advance research in a number of other key areas, including the study of gravitational waves, those elusive ripples in space-time theorized by Albert Einstein a century ago.
Harvard students and faculty members travel regularly to China — the University's most popular destination for travel abroad — and say that collaborations with Chinese researchers are critical if they are to advance work in a number of disciplines.
