The phrase "avoiding a zero" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is trying to prevent a score, result, or outcome from being zero, often in academic or performance-related situations.
Example: "In order to pass the course, I focused on avoiding a zero on my final project."
Alternatives: "preventing a failure" or "steering clear of a zero".
The 5' and 3' ends of each primer incorporated sequences which could be cleaved by restrictions enzymes, avoiding a two step amplification procedure as previously reported for a murine scFv library [ 32].
Furthermore, negotiators were forced to find compromise solutions in order to avoid a zero payoff.
In order to avoid a zero or even negative energy absorption, the complete failure strain could be also defined to be greater than the initial failure strain ( {varepsilon}_{1,2}^{ft}>{varepsilon}_{1,2}^{0t} ).
The pathogenicity weights also include a pseudo-count of 1.0 to avoid a zero divisible term.
For every accident they cause, they avoid a thousand others.
The club avoided a four premiership points penalty for their governance changes.
Or perhaps Cuban just wants to avoid a thousand predictable, potentially explosive, questions about the 2006 finals, when the Mavericks blew a 2-0 leandand lost in six games amid a searing debate over the judgment of the game officials.
The Administration's entire strategy in arguing the health-care case has been to create a cleavage between Justice Kennedy and the three conservative ultras, in the belief that Chief Justice Roberts would then side with the majority to avoid a five-to-four ruling.
But as these sites get acquired, integrate advertising, or just want to avoid a billion dollar lawsuit, they seek to shed their seedy past to stay kosher with the big media giants they hope will feed them content and advertising dollars.
They avoided an eighth-place finish and a series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, who earned the conference's top seed in a runaway.
