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Patients were mostly middle- to upper-class, insured, English-speaking, and attending primary care practices, and therefore do not represent a completely representative sample of US citizens with depression.
Our selection of systems was based on a convenience sample, and is not completely representative of the sample of computers on which Web-based experiments are completed.
Thus, fossils of this kind are not completely representative of the organisms living in the waters above.
The Staffer's Book Review piece mentions another oft-voiced concern: that the Hugos electorate – essentially those who pay to attend a convention – perhaps isn't completely representative.
These have been used to establish recommendations for local design pressures, however they are not completely representative of conditions while stationkeeping in managed ice.
(This may not be a completely representative group however – the headteacher says that the boys interested in going to university were more keen to talk to the Guardian than those who are not).
Laboratory data are more accurate measurements but generally not completely representative of the actual conditions in real-world cases, that are often much more complex than those schematized by the laboratory equipment.
But if you wear the hat of a reality TV show viewer – where you expect cringe, controversy and a tad of sensationalism, with editing for maximum viewing pleasure rather than a completely representative depiction – there were some insightful moments that illuminated the real tensions within Muslim communities.
The new financial democracy is now in play and while Meijer pointed out that the audience may not have been completely representative , the onus on pension funds will be to disclose and defend their risk strategies to members on a vast scale.
It is expected that drag saving benefits in practice will be more substantial as the tested trawl models were not completely representative of practical commercial gear in that they had minimum twine area to make the experiment most sensitive to the drag-effect of mesh orientation.
"How dare you," the assembled critics shout en masse, "behave in a way other than completely representative of everyone at all times?" Well, firstly, it wasn't the entire NUS conference that erupted into a fanatical standing ovation, but rather a handful of particularly jubilant students.
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The phrase "completely representative" functions as a modifier , specifically an adjectival phrase. It describes the extent to which something accurately reflects a larger group or population. Ludwig indicates that this phrase is grammatically correct and widely used.
Expression frequency: Very common
