(1) this excellent book can only be a snapshot of a complex industry(2) Morris had to make a good save from a snapshot by a defender(3) So we would have to choose some essentially arbitrary cut-off point at which we would freeze the data, to provide a snapshot for our analysis.(4) The formal Victorian portrait gave way to the informal snapshot , and now to the intimacy of the phonecam and picture message.(5) The recently published 2001 census provides an interesting snapshot of UK society today.(6) And if you've forgotten just how chaotic this period was - not much more than twelve months ago - here's a brief snapshot .(7) The results presented in the previous section provide a historical snapshot of research output and impact by Canadian business schools.(8) The canvas has often been compared to a snapshot , but to Sussman it looked more like a painted film still, art's first cinéma vérité moment.(9) The census is a unique snapshot of a moment in time in Scottish life.(10) This ‘fingerprinting’ technique gave researchers a snapshot of all the genes in the rice blast genome.(11) Martin Gormally gives a brief snapshot of what life was like in the hungry 1930s.(12) As it turns out, the Z-score gives investors a pretty good snapshot of corporate financial health.(13) Thank you for your thoroughly researched piece last week that enabled Philadelphians to view a snapshot of the city's animal welfare situation.(14) It is possible to get a snapshot of the complete staff at any one time of the railway system of east Kent only from these census enumerators' returns.(15) Erkut mentions that the paper produces a quantitative snapshot of management research.(16) When ecologists gather data on relative abundance, they take a census, a single snapshot of a community or assemblage.