The phrase "a single surviving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one remaining entity or individual that has endured or persisted in a particular context.
Example: "After the disaster, there was a single surviving member of the expedition team who could provide details about what happened."
Alternatives: "one remaining" or "a lone survivor".
Stretched-out Arabic letters on a single surviving page from an eighth century Koran have the stop-start rhythms of a music score.
The volcano's eruption – an initial cause of wonder that turned quickly into terror and tragedy – is recorded in a single surviving eyewitness account by Pliny the Younger.
A single surviving manuscript by her in the Newberry Library, Chicago, shows a fine mastery of the French secretary and cancelleresca hands.
On the question of the survival of mosquitoes, Parry says that in laboratory conditions 5% of the mosquitoes survived beyond the larval stage, but in the Cayman Islands tests they did not find a single surviving mosquito.
The 20th century, he said, "ended with a single surviving model of human progress, based on nonnegotiable demands of human dignity, the rule of law, limits on the power of the state, respect for women and private property and free speech and equal justice and religious tolerance".
In this article, we only choose a single surviving branch to reduce the complexity, and M is the number of bits considered at each step.
The Festival Chamber Ensemble, with David Oei at the piano, began with something of a footnote, the single surviving (and perhaps only completed) movement of Mahler's A minor Piano Quartet (1876).
Single surviving females were housed with neighbors.
Biologists used to entertain themselves by speculating about what would happen if the natural restraints were thrown off and all the progeny of a single individual survived.
In the case of a single person surviving on €7,000 a year, the Aspa allowance would be €2,600 £1,8933) – calculated according to the €9,600 benchmark figure minus the €7,000.
I know exactly where it was and have seen old photographs of it, but during a long afternoon spent tramping over the area I was unable to find a single undeniable surviving feature.
