The phrase "at a further step" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when discussing the next stage or phase in a process or plan, but it is better to use more standard expressions.
Example: "At a further step in our project, we will need to evaluate the results of our initial tests."
Alternatives: "at a later stage" or "in the next phase".
Japanese politicians hint occasionally at a further step: in 2011, Shintaro Ishihara, then governor of Tokyo, said Japan should have its own arsenal.
Conventions, where there is a choice between different possibilities, only become involved at a further step of the mathematical construction where the properties of the transformation group are studied and decisions are made concerning distance (a metric).
"[It has now been] decided that this policy should be extended to the stadium, at least in part as a further step in establishing ourselves as a "green" organisation.
Jennie Erdal's "outing" after 20 years spent ghostwriting the letters, memos, articles and books of a flamboyant London publisher might seem at first disloyal, a further step into disrepute.
At higher plasma densities, a further step is needed to subtract the background from the iris.
The Westchester Concert Singers, the chorus-in-residence at Pace University in Pleasantville, has taken a further step to attract young people.
If more American troops are assigned to the Baghdad operation, on top of the 15,600 already involved, it would mark a further step back, at least in the short term, from plans for a drawdown in overall American troop levels General Casey set at the beginning of this year.
This is the reason why the 3D probability tomography approach has not required in this application a further step, aimed at associating true resistivity values to the revealed anomaly sources.
As a further step aiming at the identification of putative cells with the most stemness features, we carried out co-localization experiments with LGR-5, MSI-1, DCAMKL-1 anuclearear β-catenin, an additional putative marker of stemness, especially in colon cancer [ 10, 11].
The state of a node at a further time step in the simulation is given by logic transition functions depending on the states of the nodes that the node receives inputs from.
The sale of our stake in SFR, at an attractive multiple, represents a significant further step in the execution of this strategy".
