The phrase "a limited sample of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a small or restricted subset of a larger group or population, often in research or analysis contexts.
Example: "The study was based on a limited sample of participants, which may affect the generalizability of the findings."
Alternatives: "a small subset of" or "a restricted selection of".
The court case would focus on a limited sample of victims, including three staff working for Prince Charles and dealing with his sons, as well as a handful of celebrities.
The intelligence inspector general, I. Charles McCullough, and his counterpart at the State Department, Steve Linick, said McCullough's office found four emails containing classified information in a limited sample of 40 emails.
Charles McCullough said that he discovered four emails containing classified information after investigating a limited sample of 40 of the tens of thousands of messages provided by Clinton.
By 2025, the memory of a TV ratings system based on a limited sample of viewers will seem comically archaic: anyone making video will have real-time data on how many people have watched, but also what they thought of it.
The STETS demonstration showed strong promise in promoting employment for a limited sample of youth with disabilities.
After suppressing his World, Descartes decided to put forward, anonymously, a limited sample of his new philosophy, in the Discourse with its attached essays.
However, with a limited sample of respondents, there is a risk of collectivisation of respondents' viewpoints as a common, societal stance.
In addition, since the verbal descriptions were culled from a limited sample of listener responses, one must be tentative in generalizing them to a wider range of sounds.
Based on a limited sample of precise 230Th dates from coral offerings on Maui Island temples it had been hypothesized that this temple system rapidly expanded during the period from A.D. 1580 1640.
However, the small VOI gives a limited sample of the kidney's activity distribution, and thus, the dose calculation is carried out using a small and manually selected representative VOI statistics.
The crucial appraisal criterion for a test's reliability is measurement error, which arises because any measurement concept can include only a limited sample of the many possible items that constitute the measurement domain.
