The phrase "as a paragraph of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific section or excerpt of text that is structured as a paragraph.
Example: "The author presented his argument as a paragraph of clear and concise reasoning, making it easy for readers to follow his logic."
Alternatives: "in the form of a paragraph" or "as a section of text".
To add to the madness, rather than framing and evaluating the evidence they present, Shields and Salerno insert themselves into the text as witnesses: a paragraph of what Shields thinks here; a paragraph of what Salerno thinks there.
Or at least, everything in Skype 09 Page is so simple, and a button for "learn more" is only two words, as opposed to a paragraph of the details 11.
In Richard Reeves's review of "As Orange Goes," by Karl Lamb (Sept . 15, a paragraph of Mr. Lamb's conclusions (which Mr. Reeves disagrees with) about voter response to candidates' personalities appeared without quotation marks.
Researchers at the University College London have developed a program called My Text in Your Handwriting, which analyzes as little as a paragraph's worth of handwritten script, and then starts to generate text that is authentically similar to the same person's handwriting.
A description of the analysis of luciferase assays was lacking and has now been added as a paragraph at the end of Method section Cloning and luciferase assays and reads as follows: "Statistical analysis: Differences among means were analyzed using two-samples student's t-test.
Each of those sentences is set as a paragraph, charging itself with all manner of portent.
However, the concept of LOs is polysemic; examples of LOs range from small resources (such as the paragraph of a text) to very large resources (such as an entire training course in a teaching technique) [2].
Here's a description, delivered raw, as the opening paragraph of a movie review by Andreas Kilb in today's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: A night of war in Berlin, the capital of the Reich.
Google is sounding a warning klaxon about a proposed law change in Germany which aims to strengthen copyright law for press publishers by requiring search engines and online news aggregators to pay a royalty to display snippets of copyrighted text — such as the first paragraph of an article displayed within a Google News search.
