The phrase "an initial stage of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the beginning phase of a process, development, or project.
Example: "The project is currently in an initial stage of planning and research before moving forward."
Alternatives: "a preliminary phase of" or "an early stage of".
Last week, another plan for 600 new flats in the east Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Zeev passed through an initial stage of the approval process.
After an initial stage of hesitancy, the contraceptive pill, with its basic rationale of preventing ovulation, was accepted by the vast majority of family-planning organizations and many gynecologists as the most satisfactory method of contraception.
His theory that human social life advanced from an initial stage of promiscuity through various forms of family life that culminated in monogamy has long been held obsolete, however.
They argue that the likely benefits, such as 17,000 jobs, would be outweighed by ecological damage and disruption to local lives.On January 3rd an environmental panel set up by the government approved an initial stage of the project, to produce 4m tonnes a year on a 4,000-acre 4,000-acre 1,600-hectare 1,600-hectare
The field was in an initial stage of paradigm development.
Field in an initial stage of paradigm development and there is a need to build theories.
The Yamaha ASV-2 system also includes a curve speed warning function which is at an initial stage of development.
The first cycle of fluidization research was started in the early 1940s by an initial stage of phenomenology.
The model can be applied to the drying, at an initial stage, of coated laminates with a gentle drying regime.
Goldman Sachs analysts issued a report Wednesday arguing that China was in an "initial stage of recovery" in the first quarter of this year.
In this work, the array of metal droplets on a semiconductor surface is studied as an initial stage of LDE and droplet epitaxy.
