The phrase "availability of similar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the presence or accessibility of comparable items, options, or resources in a particular context.
Example: "The availability of similar products in the market has increased competition among brands."
Alternatives: "accessibility of comparable" or "presence of alike".
According to Swithinbank, the closure of lads' mags is in part due to the availability of similar material online.
COMMENT FROM BEN WATSON: You mentioned one Shanghai student who enjoyed reading an older copy of the Wall Street Journal, but felt that the effort to get to Facebook with the availability of similar Chinese sites was too much.
For example, before negotiating for a particular used car, you might research the availability of similar cars in your area and their market value, determine how long the car has been for sale, and so on.
The launch of YouView – the BBC-backed set-top box that will deliver programmes to the TV via a broadband internet connection – as well as the availability of similar services from Apple and Google, will offer viewers the chance to piece together their own schedules by cherry-picking on-demand programming.
Those features might include the value of the gift, the quality of the product being offered for sale, the availability of similar products from other vendors at a lower price, and the timing of the gift offer relative to the timing of the manager's decision about whether to buy.
Availability of "similar" mates increases the probability of intra-marriage.
So does the availability of many similar products, so that relative prices can be compared.
Despite the widespread perception that Fulani pastoralists living within grazing reserves are becoming increasingly sedentary, the inhabitants of the KGR have continued to practise wide-ranging transhumance driven by the limited availability of grazing, similar to that of Fulani elsewhere.
As shown on the simulated data, the benefit of multi-task learning depends on the model complexity, the number of training instances of a task, and the availability of a similar target.
First, meta-analytic techniques depend on the availability of conceptually similar and combinable effect estimates across studies.
The new availability of a similar, competing product reinforces the utility of a contemporary review of applications of botulinum toxin type-A in the glabellar brow region.
