The phrase "pass through a stage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a process that involves going through a particular step or level. For example: "My son will have to pass through a few stages before he is ready to start kindergarten."
"It may be that all individuals pass through a stage in which they are males and then pass through a stage in which they're females," he said.
As a general rule, the estate does not pass through a stage of administration by an administrator or executor.
I have already indicated that a chemical experiment and a historical event originate in personality and pass through a stage of irresolution.
P.S. Almost all Hollywood movies, even if shot on film, pass through a stage of video in post-production, in which color correction and retouching take place.
To appreciate "The Future," Miranda July's ingeniously constructed wonder cabinet of a movie, you may first have to pass through a stage of mild annoyance or even something more intense.
According to the authors, Diane N. Ruble, Leah E. Lurye and Kristina M. Zosuls, researchers in developmental psychology, "A large proportion of girls pass through a stage when they virtually refuse to go out of the house unless they are wearing a dress".
The HIV replication cycle passes through a stage of integrating proviral DNA into the cell's DNA.
However, by the 1960s it was apparent that the Third World was not passing through a stage of underdevelopment, as envisioned by modernization theory, but remaining underdeveloped.
It reflects the fact that, to some degree, the Chinese are passing through a stage that isn't completely different from what Americans went through more than a half century earlier.
Most national societies have passed through a stage in their social and political development, usually referred to as feudalism, in which a weak and ineffectively organized national government competes for territorial jurisdiction with local power holders.
The structure is known as the "inverted pyramid" and dates back to the days of hot metal when words on their way on to paper passed through a stage of being slugs of lead.
