The phrase "are two distinct ways" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods, approaches, or options available for a particular situation or topic.
Example: "In addressing climate change, there are two distinct ways to reduce carbon emissions: renewable energy sources and energy efficiency improvements."
Alternatives: "represent two separate methods" or "constitute two different approaches."
But there are two distinct ways to use the product.
There are two distinct ways in which coughing can spread viral diseases: droplet or airborne transmission.
There are two distinct ways a virus can travel in the air.
At the Globe there are two distinct ways to experience Titus Andronicus, the latest addition to Dominic Dromgoole's 'Edges of Rome' season.
While criminal justice and the campus disciplinary process are two distinct ways of determining someone's responsibility for a wrong, there is of course yet another, a substitute justice system in social and public life, in which the presumption of innocence is not an aspiration.
"Whether it's sports, music, speech or even allocating attention, our study suggests that timing is not a unified process, but that there are two distinct ways in which we make temporal predictions and these depend on different parts of the brain," said study lead author Assaf Breska, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience at UC Berkeley.
Broken down below are three distinct ways that Corcuera sees retailers doing exactly that.
And this is my point: There are three distinct ways to look at grammar.
There are three distinct ways for the molecule to do the rolling, depending upon its direction: armchair, zigzag, and chiral.
Although there are eight distinct ways in which molecules of a racemic mixture of INDA or INDB can bind to the receptor, not all of them may be able to elicit a hormonal response.
Mechanistically, there are three distinct ways that a protease such as MALT1 can become active: proteolytic cleavage, conformational rearrangement of a monomer or conformational changes brought about by dimerization.
