"developed a practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone setting up a certain procedure or method. For example, "The professor developed a practice of holding weekly meetings with her students."
He developed a practice of playing solo that continued throughout his life.
Postwar he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1946 and developed a practice focused on maritime law.
She developed a practice, to which she still adheres, of developing a music-theater piece or opera every few years while regularly presenting solo and group vocal concerts.
Instead, the Court developed a practice of construing statutes to avoid what the Court regards as a grant of discretion broad enough to raise a serious nondelegation concern.
She developed a practice with more than 200 employees and worked across the globe, but despite her success there remains relatively few prominent female-led firms in the UK.
Sorensen developed a practice as an adviser to US corporations attempting to expand their operations overseas as well as to a number of foreign governments, including several of the Central Asian states formed out of the Soviet Union.
We have developed a practice-based evidence framework to guide outcomes research for inborn errors of metabolism.
The Practice Facilitator developed a practice-level 'prevention prescription' tailored to the needs of the Primary Care Team practice (see BETTER Trial website for trial-specific tools) [ 30].
"My biggest hope in the next couple years is to develop a practice as an artist making feature films," says Underhill.
They wrote a travel book together, With Love and Lizards (1957) and novels separately, as he struggled to develop a practice.
I'm back in school to develop a practice premised on a more holistic understanding of place.
