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The phrase 'the former involves' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to compare or contrast two different things, and want to talk about what the first one involves or entails. For example, "Learning the piano involves discipline and practice, while the former involves creativity and improvisation."
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The former involves process development, manufacturing, analytical and validation staff.
The former involves the capacity to recognise and create fashion.
The former involves building up from atoms into molecules to assemble nanostructures, materials and devices.
The former involves one-dimensional variations, but the latter generally three-dimensional ones.
The former involves the entire body and starts not with the arm but with the feet.
The former involves many design parameters, and the most critical one is the pressure ratio between both diabatic sections.
The former involves the evaluation of the point-values of the flux derivative, coupled with the bed slope source term.
The former involves gathering, analysing and providing defence intelligence and the latter means you'll be supporting aircraft from the ground.
The former involves absolute candour, togetherness, equality and, quite possibly, devising a mutually satisfying rota for picking up the kids from school and cleaning the toilet.
It is much more difficult to study the efficacy of devices than that of drugs, because the former involves invasive procedures.
The former involves basic research into characterising and validating new targets, mostly proteins, followed by identification of inhibitors or agonists through the use of target-based screening assays and/or in silico drug design.
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