The phrase "follow a template" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when instructing someone to adhere to a specific format or structure for a document or task.
Example: "To ensure consistency in our reports, please follow a template provided by the team."
Alternatives: "adhere to a format" or "use a guideline."
I didn't follow a template.
Instead, they would follow a template established by earlier deficit deals.
"Part of why I want to produce is to develop characters that follow a template of those that I love from cinema history," he said.
The cabins, while stylistically particular, follow a template: a common room and open kitchen on the first floor, an open porch out front and a group bedroom above.
It is football rather than cricket that is the national sport, and the most popular television programmes still reflect working-class culture, whether they are soaps, quizzes or entertainments that follow a template straight out of clubland.
Most successful novelists in the crime fiction genre follow a template and deliver the same format year after year.
Domains with structural homologs then follow a "template-based model" (i.e., homology modeling) protocol.
Every so often an article appears that follows a template so ingrained it should be a madlib.
It followed a template set nine years earlier by Margaret Thatcher for a party that might be better described as uncool Britannia, with guests including Bob Monkhouse, Christopher Biggins and Jimmy Tarbuck.
They include amNew York, a free tabloid financed by the Tribune Company, which began publication in October, and which follows a template set forth in Boston and Philadelphia in recent years by Metro International.
He says it's deja vu all over again: Today's Bly report follows a template established by the Mogford Report, issued a few months after the March 2005 explosion at BP's Texas City refinery that killed 15 people.
