1.   Animal-gathering mercenaries race around trying to net a representative sampling.

2.   During the past week, I listened to a representative sampling of some of the more interesting new albums and significant re-releases.

3.   Instead of trying to monitor everyone on the Web, the metered services track the Web activities of a supposedly representative sampling of people who have agreed to participate.

4.   It is merely a representative sampling of the views expressed via my voice mail in the last few days.

5.   Now, two simultaneous shows here offer a really representative sampling.

6.   The national tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress are sound but are given only to representative samplings of students.

7.   The study was based on questionnaires given to a representative sampling of employees at Du Pont, and on focus groups to supplement that data.

8.   With a virtually all-white population, it fails to provide a representative sampling of the American population.