"difference in the manner" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a variation or distinction in the way something is done or carried out. Example: There was a noticeable difference in the manner in which the two teams approached the game. One team was more aggressive while the other relied on a defensive strategy.
P.R.C. figures also differ from other such compilations on a number of players because of a different method of computing prorated share of signing bonuses and a difference in the manner of discounting deferred compensation that does not collect interest.
Writing in the Psychiatric Quarterly in 1952, in a paper titled "The Upright Posture," Straus noted the "remarkable difference in the manner of throwing of the two sexes".
Yet although this exception may be allowed, there is, nevertheless, a difference in the manner in which the thing takes place.
There is, in relation to Western thought, a striking difference in the manner in which Indian philosophical thinking is presented as well as in the mode in which it historically develops.
Although a significant increase of UA immediately after the race compared to the baseline was observed only in the H2 group, no difference in the manner of energy supply was observed between the placebo and H2 groups.
In the context of a society struggling to deal with multiculturalism careening between deeply-held racist impulses and new forms of political correctness their routine seemed to offer the possibility of dealing more freely with cultural and ethnic difference, in the manner of Lenny Bruce.
The different cotyledon phenotypes of sco1-1 and sco1-4 is likely due to differences in the manner in which translation is altered.
In Europe, potato yield per hectare differs largely from country to country due to the climate, national agricultural policy, differences in the manner of potato cultivation and also because of the presence of potato diseases affecting plant growth and tubers in storage (Czajkowski et al. 2012).
The former plays a role for non-Cartesian grids and results in only cosmetic differences in the manner in which geometric terms are handled.
Additionally, human DNA is consistently shorter in dental calculus than in paired dentin samples, which may reflect differences in the manner by which human DNA is incorporated into each matrix.
Similarly, if the same interviewer does all interviews in one location first, and then all those in another, systematic differences in the manner of interviewing over time (eg, due to a learning curve) may again yield spuriously different results in the two locations.
