6 sentences with 'sample'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sample and other words derived from it.
• « They took a blood sample for the umpteenth time, reviewed my documents and studies, and attached my "last will" to my file: a written agreement between me and the doctor that no artificial life-sustaining measures would be used if I suffered irreversible damage. »
• « One day, shortly after our wedding, my wife and I were looking at a sample book to choose the wallpaper for the living room. We didn't have the same aesthetic sense. »
• « In its Nurses' Health Study, the results of which were published in 1993, Harvard found in a sample of 87,245 women that those who took more vitamin E had a 34 per cent lower risk of heart disease than those who took less. Researchers reached the same conclusion in a second study of nearly 40,000 men. »
• « "They took a sample of a muscle in my arm, put electrodes on it, injected a radiopaque fluid into my spine and, through an x-ray machine, watched it go up and down as they tilted the bed back and forth." »
• « It is a great pleasure to observe that where once there was a stinking toxic sample, only water, carbon dioxide and a multitude of well-fed bacteria can be detected. »
• « In terms of statistics, a private study by the Kniser Centre in the United States showed that, out of a sample of 1600 pregnant women, those who spent at least 20 hours a week in front of the computer were twice as likely to miscarry before three months. »