The phrase "a single provisional" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to one temporary or conditional item, agreement, or arrangement.
Example: "The committee decided to issue a single provisional permit for the event until all safety concerns were addressed."
Alternatives: "one temporary" or "a sole provisional".
For a single person, provisional income above a modest $34,000 per year will make 85% of their Social Security taxable at their marginal rate; joint filers will be taxable above $44,000.
Both Lanchester and McEwan narrate in the present tense: a whole life may fall into a pattern, but the events of a single day are provisional, unforeseeable.
Any conclusions based on the quantitative analyses of protocols from a single patient are clearly provisional.
Coach James Hird didn't know if his men could last the distance, given 13 of them hadn't played a single pre-season match while serving provisional suspensions.
Wrestling was vying with seven other sports for a single spot as a so-called "provisional" sport in the 2020 Olympics after it was dropped as one of the Olympics' 25 core sports Feb. 12. On Wednesday, wrestling emerged the hands-down winner, the only sport to get eight of the 14 votes cast and thus secure a short-list spot in the first round of deliberations.
Since sequence identifications are frequently provisional, identification via a single fragment is generally not accepted without additional information that substantiates the identification of the peptide.
Four out of the five known endoglucanases were also identified, but one of them, endoglucanase Cel61A, was only identified with a single peptide and thus should be considered provisional (Table 2).
If the law on provisional voting, he wrote, "saves but a single vote, its purposes will have been accomplished, and its adoption justified".
Since then only one provisional genotype has been identified (7a) represented by a single isolate (QC69, EF108306).
