The phrase "instance of theft" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific occurrence or case of stealing or larceny.
Example: "The police reported an instance of theft at the local convenience store last night."
Alternatives: "case of theft" or "occurrence of theft."
Goldin exposed what authorities have called "one of the most egregious instances of theft" from the National Archives, where the government preserves billions of historic documents, photographs and recordings.
Shopkeepers in the city yesterday reported high instances of theft of the brand, while community health advisers warnedthat nothing in the product would produce hallucinations and those who injected it risked death.
Yet it should be said that the great credit-card fear has not, so far, proved well-founded: there have been very few instances of theft of credit-card numbers, and, even if there were any, the credit-card firms would shoulder most of the liability.
All of the cities on our list, from Laredo (theft rate: 742.22) to Albuquerque, N.M. (theft rate: 561.25), had much more frequent instances of theft than the cities at the bottom.
This enables the company to deliver sophisticated reports that include data points such as male vs. female ratios, instances of theft by employees, and other actions that only humans can get right.
This enables the company to deliver sophisticated reports that include data points such as male vs female ratios, instances of theft by employees, and other actions that only humans can get right.
Charges of Driving Under the Influence have also grown more typical, while instances of theft more than doubled in 2011 compared to the year before.
For instance, in the case of theft, "hot products" are usually more Concealable, Removable, Available, Valuable, Enjoyable, and Disposable (CRAVED; Petrossian and Clarke 2014).
On his blog, he noted on Monday that colleagues had told him of eight other instances of thefts at open houses in the past two to three weeks.
