The phrase "are generally different from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more items, indicating that they have distinct characteristics or qualities.
Example: "Cats and dogs are generally different from each other in terms of behavior and socialization."
Alternatives: "tend to differ from" or "are typically unlike".
Victims of domestic violence are generally different from other violent offenders.
Planning, design and operation (management) goals and requirements of such firms are generally different from those of single, centralized enterprises.
However, these are generally different from the toughening mechanisms that are utilized for other classes of structural materials.
Moreover, these jump conditions are generally different from those provided by the "line-spring model" which is usually adopted in mechanical engineering in such a situation.
Bills for credit cards, doctors, electricity and other services are generally different from month to month, and you have to receive the bill first and inform the bill-paying service how much to pay.
In many surveillance applications, the size of the objects (targets) searched for constitutes a very small fraction of the total search area and the spectral signatures associated to the targets are generally different from those of the background, hence the targets can be seen as anomalies.
In this case, direct subtraction of the background readings from the uncorrected fluorescence intensity at each time-point t is not appropriate, as the size of the bacterial population generating the uncorrected signal is generally different from the size of the population generating the background signal.
This difference suggests that the local geology is generally different from site to site (e.g., Kawase et al. 2011), and the degree of nonlinear site response is also expected to be different at each site, as described in the next section.
This suburban residential resettlement pattern is generally different from that in Western cities, which is largely attributed to the Chinese governments' monopoly of land supply and public service provision.
