It is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "The professor conducted a large number of research projects over the course of his career."
A large number of research and monitoring vessels have continued to increase knowledge of the North Sea and its coastal environment.
Dr. McKinnell echoed that argument yesterday, calling outsourcing "a fact of life" and noting that the pharmaceutical industry has actually brought a large number of research jobs into the United States from other countries in recent years.
It funds or is otherwise involved in a large number of research initiatives to help improve understanding of the issues involved, as well as supporting the development of renewable energy technology.
In addition to his extensive UK experience John also has enormous international experience as result of his keynotes and conference inputs and involvement in a large number of research and development projects.
When Bondi left King's in 1967 Felix became head of the group and supervised a large number of research students, on whom he had a deep and lasting influence.
A large number of research studies have been done on rate control algorithms.
The agent paradigm has been successfully used in a large number of research areas.
There are quite a large number of research that had been done on BWRO.
If this were to be the case, we assume that a large number of research papers would reference this definition.
A large number of research works have already been performed to improve the quality of basic decision tree-clustered HSMM.
A large number of research has been conducted on the analysis of social networks, based on CDRs.
