"projects in hand" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to the tasks that need to be completed at the present moment or soon. For example: "I have two projects in hand at the moment, so I am feeling a bit overwhelmed."
He has something like a dozen projects in hand, and he is plainly overflowing with talent.
Nevertheless, the partnership developed a following among families of comfortable means, and by the mid-1880's had projects in hand for the Pratts, Hoaglands, Wheelers and other mansion builders.
As the director of the world's most highly regarded experimental dance company, and with a raft of future projects in hand – this summer sees him return to London from the company's base in Frankfurt with a new work for ballerina Sylvie Guillem – death had not been uppermost in his mind.
The topic agreed on for my contribution was the slippery subject of myth, my current preoccupation, not only because of some detailed research projects in hand, but more urgently as a new undergraduate seminar on the general topic looms on my immediate horizon.
With her knack for craft and congenital inability to sit still, Judyth always had a project in hand.
Or – in the trowelling on of improbably damning detail – was there a more general literary project in hand?
And you work closely together both on the project in hand and on the financial and impact reporting.
But the group had a bigger literary project in hand, inspired in 1995 by a reading of James Ellroy's American Tabloid.
It is tempting to suggest that the Tent was something Rogers had long wanted to build rather than something known to be needed for the project in hand.
Japan also has a project in hand to renovate its air-traffic-control systems.With trajectory-based management, the flight should be smoother and shorterOne element of this modernisation involves fitting new kit to aircraft.
In movies, a casting director negotiates with actors' agents on behalf of the producers, a difficult job that requires tact, nerve and, above all, a feeling for the texture and tone of the project in hand.
