"three core elements" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the main components of a subject, such as in the sentence, "The three core elements of a successful business plan are a detailed budget, a strategic marketing plan, and a clear mission statement."
Sean D'Souza says there are three core elements of good storytelling (and says your business needs them).
This ethical approach to Syria has three core elements to it, none of which is easy, but all of which are critical.
These will have the respective tasks of finding inter-governmental agreement on three core elements of any successful transition to sustainable development.
The main American newspapers latched on to three core elements of the WikiLeaks Iraq documents: the abuse of detainees in Iraqi custody, Iran's involvement in the war and the role of private US contractors in the widespread killings of civilians.
"I had the music, I had Christopher's character and I had the Brooklyn — those are the three core elements that this movie represented," said Wayne Barrow, a producer of the film who also was one of the managers for Biggie Smalls, as Mr. Wallace was also known.
In our framework we distinguish between three core elements: coercion, (dis- incentives andis- incentivesrmandon.
There are four core elements to this approach: Strategic research and development financing for New Jersey's corporate-university research partnerships.
Dr. Swedo said the plan was to define autism by two core elements — impaired social communication and repetitive behaviors or fixated interests — and to score each of those elements for severity.
These two core elements of the promised "grand bargain" are linked to an agreement to make Greece's debt levels sustainable, with a report from a troika of the European commission, IMF and ECB due to be handed over to eurogroup finance ministers on Friday.
The landmark, £265m alliance to capitalise on the growing appetite for football in China has completed a month at Manchester City which has illustrated four core elements in the extraordinary story of the previously hapless club's ownership by the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi.
The bundling argument is one of two core elements in the commission's case against Microsoft, the other being that the company has leveraged its dominant position with Windows to muscle out competition in the related market for software that runs networks of computers.
