"formal practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to any type of formal or structured practice, such as in education, sports, or music. For example: - "As part of their training, the students engaged in a formal practice of debating every week." - "The athletes were required to attend three hours of formal practice each day." - "She has perfected her violin skills through years of formal practice and dedication."
Formal practice begins Tuesday.
He also squeezed in some batting practice before the first game, even though the team did not have a formal practice.
So Casey alluded to it only elliptically today at a news conference as the Nittany Lions gathered for the beginning of formal practice for the 2000 season.
In the Santa Barbara regimen, students instead met four days a week for two weeks and were not required to devote as much formal practice outside of class.
The Knicks were one of eight teams that played last Thursday, just before the break, and therefore were not permitted to hold a formal practice until Tuesday.
Even before the book was published, his bosses were so impressed that they created a formal practice that took its name from the book -- and they made Mr. Cole its leader.
This week the BBC Radio 4 documentary Monogamy and the Rules of Love tapped into a growing curiosity about polyamory, the formal practice of having multiple romantic partners at one time.
The formal practice of telling jokes in front of an audience originated with the village spokesmen who host public events, spicing them up with wit and humorous anecdotes, according to Barclays Foubiri Ayakoroma, the former head of Nigeria's National Institute for Cultural Orientation.
Although he had, as they said then, left the formal practice of the old faith — ironically, or maybe not, his literary heyday was at the height of the premiership of that other utterly Jewish, non-Jewish Jew, Disraeli — Farjeon's literary Christmas family, his Cratchit family, is called the Silvers, with two daughters named, of all odd Victorian things, Ruth and Rachel.
