"an actual example" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an example that has actually occurred (as opposed to a hypothetical example) in a given situation. For example, "The teacher provided an actual example of the concept in order to make it easier to understand."
As an actual example, she used the planes of El Chapo to go to their meeting".
So let me cite an actual example of the problems I'm describing by looking at Lizza's Bachmann piece.
But the story of the family farm sold to pay the estate tax turns out to be a rural legend -- nobody has been able to find an actual example.
Even as politicians complain about a "culture of dependency," they ignore the ways in which single mothers provide an actual example of self-sufficiency, instead condemning them for failing to insure the presence of a father.
A blown-up news photo on one wall shows him theatrically pushing over Bumper (1936), while an actual example of that game sits below the photo, having the last laugh.
But how do Americans react when faced not with a question about political leaders' use of religious references in general but with an actual example, like Attorney General John Ashcroft's declaration, "Unique among nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal"?
Some examples for common systems (i.e., series, parallel, and voting systems) and an actual application example (i.e., a nine-bus power grid system) are used to demonstrate the application of the proposed resilience metric and its corresponding evaluation methodology.
The rationality of the error compensation method was verified with an actual processing example.
We also try to evaluate and investigate its usefulness on the basis of an actual study example in Toyota.
In addition an actual engineering example of forward swept wing with uncertain structural parameters is studied by the TE + PIA + OAP method to illustrate the capability to solve the real divergence problem of wing with uncertain structural parameters.
And consider the Ion's actual example of inspired verse.
