The phrase "take one instance" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is usually used to introduce an example or specific case that supports or illustrates a previously mentioned statement or argument. For example: - "The company's sales have been steadily declining over the past year. Take one instance, their profits in the last quarter were down by 20%." - "Some people claim that technology has made our lives easier. Take one instance, the invention of smartphones has allowed us to stay connected at all times." - "Many critics have praised the new movie for its captivating storyline. Take one instance, the dramatic plot twist in the third act had the entire audience at the edge of their seats." In each of these examples, "take one instance" is used to introduce a specific example that supports the main statement or argument. It can be used in both formal and informal writing.
To take one instance, in a tense scene in the movie, C.I.A. agents in Langley electronically confirm the diplomats' plane tickets; in real life, the Ambassador's wife paid for them herself.
It is not true, to take one instance among several, that Berlin's 1950 musical, "Call Me Madam," contained no hits: "You're Just in Love" was on Billboard's charts for several weeks (and at least two other numbers from the show, "It's a Lovely Day Today" and "Marrying for Love," went on to become standards).
Recent research has found that pupils from less privileged backgrounds are more likely to take one instance of failure as an indication of total life chances in a way that students from more privileged backgrounds are not; Little, who believes that character can be taught, was asked to suggest how that might be counteracted.
To take one instance, Friss shows that the American biking community itself split, violently, in the eighteen-nineties, between those who were in favor of dedicated bike paths and those who mistrusted any segregation of the biker from the common highway.
George S. Kaufman, to take one instance, was exclusively a creature of the theatre; if, like the galleries in SoHo in the nineteen-nineties, the Broadway theatre had in the thirties picked up and moved to Chelsea, Kaufman would have followed it blindly and would never have been seen on Forty-second Street again.
Will Harris, Head of Media for Terrence Higgins Trust, says that while research shows that most gay men use condoms most of the time, it only takes one instance of unprotected sex for HIV to be passed on.
To take one graphic instance, it is clear that he never regarded the World Trade Center as a pair of buildings: to him they were always a pair of bull's-eyes.
To take one famous instance: it is, crucially, not Inspector Javert's personal malice or mercilessness, as legend has it and the musical suggests, that drives him to hunt down Jean Valjean; it is his absolute commitment to justice, which he interprets as a commitment to rules and their administration, to the parallel paper universe of absolute laws.
There seems little evidence for this confidence: the Communard leader Rigault, to take one small instance, may be a life-affirming man of appetite, but he was as bloodthirsty as his predecessors, stopping, even as the Versaillais invaded Paris, to personally arrange the execution of a fellow-Communard — an old friend with whom he was feuding — long after it could possibly have any political point.
Note how often these stories emerge at locations remote from the metropolitan centre: Jersey, north Wales, Belfast or, to take one of many instances from abroad, Nova Scotia.
She could, for instance, take one of the White House chefs on the road, working the morning and talk show circuit as the president and his staff do.
