Sentence examples for took a random from inspiring English sources

Professor Ocasio took a random sample from 2,700 industrial corporations, regardless of their size.

On Feb. 2, 2011, Houston took a random N.C.A.A. drug test.

Of 747 eligible cases, they took a random sample of 280, and applied a set of 5 criteria for defining MSI.

To do this, he and his team took a random sample from the corpus, checked what proportion were non-words and extrapolated that to the whole lot.

"In El Paso, if you took a random doctor and looked at his tax returns eighty-five per cent of his income would come from the usual practice of medicine," he said.

While my also-hosting husband plays an animated, badly dressed, barefoot Charlie Rose, inclining forward every now and then over the guacamole (I managed to serve it!) to ask a question, I realize that these dazzling stories are not happenstance any more than Chaucer took a random sampling.

"If you take a random movie, it loses money.

They'd take a random subway line to the end and explore.

Taking a random sample of these cases, estimators visited houses to assess damage.

But a few years from now — maybe 2008, to take a random date — the situation could improve markedly.

To take a random sampling, the University of California adopted a system in 1969 and Duke in the mid-1970s.