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scanty

(skăn′tē) [ME. from O. Norse, skamt, short]

Not abundant; insufficient, as a secretion.

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A measly 7.8 percent of the population have completed primary education, and an even scantier 2.4 percent their secondary education.

Communication for development: UNDP in Chittagong hill tracts

Medical facilities can even include full X-ray capabilities and a mobile CT scantier. Every aspect of a hospital is taken into account including laboratories, a central sterile supply department, power and maintenance, and even a kitchen.

Integrated deployable workspaces

Several humans have gained a reputation for intelligence on scantier grounds.

Whistling at dolphins..

Earlier this winter, before the recent series of storms, the mountain snowpack had been much scantier. On Jan.

Spring snow makes mess

In North America, spending on new solutions is even scantier, and only 29% of the respondents indicated an investment in new solutions.

IS gains momentum in the Oil and Gas Industry: IDC

Cyclically, the city becomes scantier, validating the assertion that life has the propensity of extending, invading and assimilating new territories and environments.

The influence of Bucharest's metro network development on urban area accessibility

What arguments can justify an international project that concentrates such energies on the words of a composer, as opposed to his sounds, especially where everywhere in the cultural world resources for primary aims are scant, and becoming scantier, almost by the day?

"Prima la musica, o le parole?": A web of words to surround Mozart's music

In fact, TC had much scantier PAX5 expression than SCLC and LCNEC did, despite having similar expression for the other 3 markers tested.

Expression patterns of PAX5, c-Met, and Paxillin in neuroendocrine tumors of the lung

(20) The question of representativeness arises again and again with reference to the early 18th century, whose legacy of personal documentation is much scantier than that for the period after 1750.

Practice and performance in the history of the Russian nobility

India, with the largest population in South Asia, may be the most seriously affected by the scantier rainfall and glacier thaw in the Himalayas that supply the river system on which its agriculture depends heavily.

Climate Change Monster: Calamitous Situation in South Asia Demands Urgent Action

(The less 'different' Aboriginal children have appeared--that is, the more their lives resembled those of white children--the scantier the documentation of their play lore).

Traditional games of a timeless land: play cultures in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

Thus, Gottlieb's scantier attention to such topics is arguably more appropriate.