"distinct phenomena" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used in scientific and academic writing to describe separate or unique occurrences or events. Example: The study revealed two distinct phenomena: the first being a decrease in oxygen levels, and the second being an increase in atmospheric temperatures.
The view that system and text are not two distinct phenomena differs from the distinction between langue/parole of Saussure, and the dichotomy between competence and performance in generative linguistics.
Hence, the word governance is used by radicals to denote two distinct phenomena.
We are accustomed to thinking of food and its packaging as distinct phenomena, but to a brain seeking flavor they seem to be one and the same.
The Great Crash and the Great Depression are synonymous in the minds of many Americans, but they were actually two distinct phenomena.
Despite being conceptually distinct phenomena, the political economy of income inequality is, in part, the political economy of finance.
Since some financial innovations are examined by more than one study, only fourteen distinct phenomena have been covered.
The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Soneety is ofe of those books that, by making connections between apparently distinct phenomena, permits sudden new insights into what is happening to us and why.
Although conceived of as distinct phenomena until the 19th century, electricity and magnetism are now known to be components of the unified field of electromagnetism.
Like thermoluminescence, the term electroluminescence includes several distinct phenomena, a common feature of which is that light is emitted by an electrical discharge in gases, liquids, and solid materials.
The prohibition that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" eludes elegant conceptualization simply because the prohibition applies to such distinct phenomena as state churches and aid to religious schools, and as applied to school aid has prompted challenges to programs ranging from construction subsidies to hearing aids to textbook loans.
I always understood them to be a distinct phenomena of the American system that confers a wonderfully prolonged summer vacation on its lucky little Brad and Janets, while shackling its working schlubs to their desks for all but a couple of weeks a year.
