The phrase "a sample of american" is not correct as it should be "a sample of American" with a capital "A." You can use it when referring to a representative example of something related to American culture, products, or characteristics.
Example: "The exhibit features a sample of American art from the 20th century."
Alternatives: "a specimen of American" or "an example of American."
If this is a sample of American thought, we have no fear of repeating that chapter of the past.
The researchers hired private investigators to uncover the personal assets of a sample of American chief executives.
The announcement will help census officials decide whether to recommend statistically adjusting population counts based on data from a sample of American households.
Baseball, we've discovered once again, is always better as a sample of American business life than as a place for moral lessons.
To compare environmental factors that influence body mass index for age (BMI-for-age) between a sample of American and Czech school-aged children.
Objective: To identify factors related to risk for poor health outcomes and secondary conditions in a sample of American Indians with spinal cord injury (SCI).
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered the decline by analyzing blood drawn as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which interviews and examines a sample of Americans at least once a decade.
Last year, for example, after a teenager shot dead ten people in and around a Minnesota high school, pollsters asked a sample of Americans how likely it was that a similar massacre might occur in their own town.
The bet is simple: in January, 2019 the folks at Planet Money on NPR will poll a sample of Americans.
Recruiting a sample of Americans via the internet, they polled participants on a set of contentious US policy issues, such as imposing sanctions on Iran, healthcare and approaches to carbon emissions.
While different Census Bureau surveys have asked a sample of Americans about citizenship, the decennial survey, which goes out to every American household, has not asked about citizenship status since 1950.
