The phrase "a combination of the items" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the merging or mixing of different items or elements to create something new or to describe a collection of items together.
Example: "The recipe calls for a combination of the items listed in the ingredients section to create a delicious dish."
Alternatives: "a mixture of the items" or "an assortment of the items."
Probably a combination of the items you mentioned and continued concern about what state budget cuts mean.
Although Lu et al. claimed that they administered the Beijing version of the MoCA in their study; the items used in their study were actually a combination of the items in the Beijing version and Changsha version of the MoCA.
These can come in the form of creams, ointments, salves, lotions, gels, and poultices and will typically contain one or a combination of the items listed above.
The shape of an item information function is a combination of the item's discriminating ability and its difficulty.
The latter is a combination of the CAM item related to level of consciousness (Item 4 [Hyper-alert]) and Agitation (Item 8).
Therefore, the predictive value of any one component or concussion sign, or a combination of these items, is unknown and may be the focus of future research.
In our previous study of postnatal demoralisation in a hospital mother-baby unit [ 12], we extracted four factors: a factor which was mainly a combination of the dysphoria and disheartenment items (items 11,16,15,21,10,18,5,9,22); helplessness (items 24, 23,7,4,8,6); loss of meaning (items 14,20,2,13,3); and sense of failure (items 17,19,1,12).
The complexity (145,156,469 possible species) results from a combination of the first three items listed above.
The finding: Consumers will pay more for a single expensive item, such as a watch, than they will for a combination of that item and a cheaper one, such as a pen.
The EQ-5D health states are defined as a combination of the responses for each item and the survey can therefore yield 35 (= 243) possible combinations of responses.
The phrases were a combination of the participants' morphed voices ("first item" and "second item") in the same morphing condition.
