"The sample is a random one and so representative of the city as a whole.
The most moving passage in the sample is a long description of some Choctaws boarding a riverboat in Memphis.
His sample is a circle of journalists, policymakers, and spymasters who lived and socialized in Georgetown after 1945.
The sample is a gorgeous figure — Enya hums twelve notes over a loping keyboard bass line, lost in echo.
A colour sample is a sign for the colour it possesses say, the colour red.
"The size of a sample is a serious problem," said Dr. David Murray, director of research at the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit research organization in Washington.
Just how the Democrats picked those three precincts to sample is a matter of numbers, some stereotyping and a little political intrigue.
And if Leonardo himself believed that all of nature was contained in a particle, this sample is a microcosm that illustrates the whole.
The selectivity of the sample is a limitation.
Overgeneralisation on the basis of a sample is a risk, but more advanced procedures can tackle that.
The simultaneous extraction of acidic and basic analytes from a particular sample is a challenging task.
