The phrase "it comprises only" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to emphasize that something contains or includes only the specific things or elements mentioned, without anything else added. For example: "The book comprises only 100 pages, making it a quick and easy read."
Hence, the reasoning system can keep its small size since it comprises only a description of basic inference instruments, while the operational semantics is defined outside.
The predicted founder of this clonal complex is ST1 and despite its high number of isolates, it comprises only 35 STs.
Pirc is concerned about various aspects of pay at BP, saying that the peer group against which some measurements of success are geared is "too narrow" as it comprises only five companies.
Chromosome 22 is the second smallest of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the nucleus of every human cell, and it comprises only about 1.7percentt of the DNA in the human genome, but in many ways it shows what it means to have the sequence of the entire human genome.
It comprises only six statements that correspond to the 'components' model of addiction [16].
We pooled our dataset from Thomson-Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge but while ISI is a good resource, it comprises only a small subset of all existing journals and leaves out other source documents such as books and dissertations.
At its founding, it comprised only three members: Sakimoto, Iwata, and Manabu Namiki.
To make "Guapeva," I used the whole block of wood just as I found it, comprising only part of the trunk (that became the base) and the actual root of the tree.
Honey bee researchers suspected that the first Official Gene Set (OGSv1.0), generated by creating a consensus gene set with GLEAN [ 1, 17], was incomplete, as it comprised only 10,157 genes, far fewer than expected based on the estimate of ~13,600 genes in D. melanogaster at the time.
We report the findings of the investigation of an outbreak of S. Enteritidis that was performed after notification of the rapid increase of the number of patients with febrile gastroenteritis in an emergency room and an unusually high percentage of Group D Salmonella isolated since it comprised only 7.4% of the various Salmonella groups in the hospital one year before the outbreak.
