The phrase "prominent drawbacks" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has considerable shortcomings or disadvantages. For example, "Electric cars are becoming increasingly popular, but they still have some prominent drawbacks, such as a limited driving range and high upfront cost."
Several of the most prominent drawbacks of high temperature concreting include the increased water demand, slump loss, drying shrinkage, autogenous shrinkage, decreased mechanical and durability properties.
A summary of the more prominent drawbacks in the legislation relevant to the registration requirements is given in the second column of Additional file 1.
However, these conventional methods have prominent drawbacks associated with extraction, sample preparation, intensive solvent usage, intensive labor, expensive devices, and time consumption.
Yet, both of them have prominent drawbacks.
This method has a high diagnostic accuracy of 95 to 99% (Dooley et al, 1984), but is plagued with some prominent drawbacks, which limit its suitability for population-based screening.
One prominent drawback of the classical EST, which is shared by other in vitro assays for embryotoxicity such as the whole embryo culture test and the rat limb bud micromass test, is its reliance on a morphological endpoint.
More importantly, these drawbacks become more prominent as the node density is increased.
Traditional image enhancement techniques produce different types of noise such as unnatural effects, over-enhancement, and artifacts, and these drawbacks become more prominent in enhancing dark images.
There are definite advantages of the technology but the drawbacks are equally prominent.
This drawback is more prominent for additive materials such as Stellite 1 which are by nature crack-sensitive during the hardfacing process.
This drawback will become less prominent in new generations of comprehensive cancer genomics projects (e.g., TCGA [ 7] and ICGC [ 8]), as they employ high density microarrays and next-generation sequencing to cover the entire genomes.
