The phrase "as intermediate stage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phase or step in a process that serves as a transition between two other stages.
Example: "The project will be implemented in three phases, with the second phase functioning as an intermediate stage before the final rollout."
Alternatives: "as a transitional phase" or "as a middle step".
What does success look like in the long term as well as at intermediate stages?
Experts have recognized different types of schizophrenia as well as intermediate stages between the disease and other conditions.
It is concluded that applied researchers should consider a broader range of factors (other than sample size) that influence statistical power, and that the use of standardized measures of effect size should be avoided (except as intermediate stages in prospective power or sample size calculations).
Most botanists think of ferns and horsetails as intermediate stages in plant evolution that eventually led to seed plants.
We have found that the higher energy states of the QDs don't act as intermediate stages in the carrier relaxation, while the carriers can cool down to any lower energy states following a relaxation through a continuum background.
They can be observed as intermediate stages in any of the disease processes listed in Table 1.
In 1997, the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus (5) introduced impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) as intermediate stages in the natural history of type 2 diabetes.
To decide what a final pattern is, and when exactly it occurs, is always arbitrary to some degree, while transient features (such as intermediate stages and the timing of their transitions) are clearly important when considering the function and dynamics of developmental processes.
Patients with multinodular HCC with neither vascular invasion nor extrahepatic spread are classified as intermediate-stage according to the BCLC staging system, provided that they have a performance status of 0 and Child Pugh class A or B cirrhosis 3 5.
