The phrase "an intermediate number of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity that falls between two extremes or categories.
Example: "The study found that an intermediate number of participants preferred option A over option B."
Alternatives: "a moderate number of" or "a middle range of".
However, results from streams and lakes support our findings, by showing that abundant species occupying an intermediate number of sites contribute most to beta diversity50,51.
The researchers said their subjects preferred men with an intermediate number of matches to their own paternal M.H.C. genes, showing no liking for those with a high proportion of matches.
Seven hundred turkeys, two rappers, and an intermediate number of onlookers had assembled in the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket on Cleveland Avenue, on the scrappy south side of Atlanta.
At a micro-site scale, M. clelandii and N. cretaceum were more likely to occur in stands with an intermediate number of host eucalypt stems, likely relating to successional age of the stand.
Omnivores have an intermediate number of facets.
In this way, an intermediate number of hidden neurons should be selected.
The Taguchi method is best used when there are an intermediate number of variables (3 50), few interactions between variables, and when only a few variables contribute significantly.
Post-transition metals and metalloids, sandwiched between the true metals and the nonmetals, tend to have more complex structures with an intermediate number of nearest neighbours.
This causes the number of repeats to change in successive generations, such that an unaffected parent with an "intermediate" number of repeats (28 35), or "reduced penetrance" (36 40), may pass on a copy of the gene with an increase in the number of repeats that produces fully penetrant HD.
For the two corticosteroid datasets, a similar response is observed, with an intermediate number of clusters reached before the incorporation of additional clusters decreases the expense metric.
Mammalian genomes encode an intermediate number of Neks, several of which are reported to play roles in cell cycle regulation and/or localize to centrosomes.
