The phrase "a selection of countries" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific group or variety of countries chosen for a particular purpose or context.
Example: "The report includes a selection of countries that have implemented successful environmental policies."
Alternatives: "a range of countries" or "a variety of countries."
Our chart sets out its projections for potential GDP growth for a selection of countries.
Almost everywhere women are in a minority in government cabinets (see chart for a selection of countries).
If you take a selection of countries, from Algeria and Tunisia in the north to Botswana and South Africa in the south, you may answer: not that unusual.
Unlike many other big oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia and it neighbours clustered around the Persian Gulf, Caspian oil and gas is landlocked and set apart from the sea by a selection of countries with differing ambitions and loyalties.
At a meeting with Leszek Miller, his Polish counterpart, Tony Blair said that he would expand a scheme that already allows young women and men from a selection of countries including Malta and Switzerland to live with British families on permits lasting two years.
To get a sense of scale, here is a chart showing how many kilocalories a day were required per person in 2005, from a selection of countries: If all countries were as fat as the United States, the resulting increase in global weight would increase energy requirements by 261 kilocalories a day per adult.
5. Place your Flora among a selection of country yokels dancing brainlessly in the fields while wearing hats of all shapes and sizes, some of them sporting two or three at once.
Supporting evidence is offered below: a selection of country song titles -- odes to lust, love and love gone bad recorded over the years by artists both well-known and obscure.
A quality review of UNICEF's Executive Board Country Programme Documents for 2006, SPPG, 2007 This baseline assessment examined a selection of Country Programme Documents submitted to the Executive Board in 2006.
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macroeconomic indicators relating to total economy; agriculture, forestry and fishing (AFF); manufacturing (MAN); and manufacturing of food, beverage and tobacco products (FBT).
These studies have usually included only a selection of EU countries and, additionally, covered non-European OECD countries.
