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The phrase "a fair example of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something is a reasonable or adequate representation of a particular category or concept.
Example: "This painting is a fair example of the impressionist style, showcasing the use of light and color."
Alternatives: "a good representation of" or "a suitable illustration of".
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Otherwise she was not impressed, calling the book a, "fair example of the myopic Western attitudes that helped create the problem it describes".
The event, co-sponsored by the Mexican Embassy and held in a room featuring a painting by El Greco and a sculpture by Tilman Riemenschneider, was a fair example of the kinds of public engagements that the center promotes.
Obama is assigned "Sister Carrie," by Theodore Dreiser, set in his own Chicago, but about the sort of American he doesn't know: "She was a fair example of the middle American class — two generations removed from the emigrant.
This, it is often forgotten, preceded Tom Sawyer by seven years, offered a model for many later stories of small-town bad boys, and is a fair example of the second-class classic.
D. W. Gibson's "The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-first Century" is a fair example of how the topic often gets treated.
This precise description from the ground seems to me — and apparently to journalists at the Overseas Press Club, who awarded the articles that year's prize for best magazine reporting from abroad — a fair example of the "eyewitness reporting" he says I have "turned away from".
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Lawry credited his fellow Victorian for being dignified despite the torment and said the bowler was a "pretty fair example of the old expression that good guys run last".
The dialogue about giving up smoking and the telephone conversation between the mother and son are fair examples of the first method.
He stated very clearly that the car was a fair and reasonable example of the type.
Even though we very much liked the three Vouvrays in our tasting, for example, a fair amount of sparkling Vouvray is made as sort of a dumping ground for grapes less than ripe or otherwise imperfect.
The old saying was that there was a church for every week and a pub for every day of the year... there's a fair few lovely examples of both left, but ironically we have the highest atheist population in the UK according to the last census.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
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