The phrase "a sample of statements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a selection or subset of statements for analysis, illustration, or demonstration purposes.
Example: "In this report, we will provide a sample of statements from various participants to highlight the diversity of opinions."
Alternatives: "a selection of statements" or "a set of statements".
Typically, in a Q-methodological study people are presented with a sample of statements about some topic, called the Q-set.
Typically, in a Q-study a sample of statements about some topic, called the Q-set, are presented to respondents, called the P-set, to rank-order them from their individual point of view using a quasi-normal distribution.
Here is a sampling of statements that independents believed and disbelieved, with assessments of each provided in parentheses by Aaron Carroll, director of the university's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research, who helped design the survey.
Below is a small sample of statements released Tuesday: "When the history books are written, the true legacy of 9/11 will not be one of fear or hate or division.
Table 4 includes a sample of qualitative student statements.
SP also categorised a sample of other selected statements as a means to check the accuracy of our categorisation [ 20].
"History will judge where America's leaders stood today," lamented Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill).. That's just a sampling of dozens of statements being fired out by Democrats.
We analysed a sample of clinical trial protocols, ethics statements of principal/national co-ordinating investigators, and participant-information documents to assess how the use of randomisation and placebo had been justified and how possible risks associated with placebo use had been described.
These were specifically aimed at eliciting views felt to be underrepresented in the sample of statements already collected, such as around reasons for valuing end of life treatments more than other health gains.
The following is just a small sampling of statements made by Moore that should've buried his political aspirations years ago.
Using financial statements for a sample of Spanish banks matched to registers of business credit at the bank-industry and bank-firm level, we have estimated different specifications for the separate impact of changes in banks' actual and expected capital growth on bank lending.
