A walk-in diner may be told, despite the sparse crowd in attendance, that there is an hour's wait for a table, and that seats at the bar are "for reservations only".
No public announcement or trumpets were sounded, no press reports appeared in the local papers, and the sparse audience in attendance was for the most part unaware of the significance of the event transpiring before their eyes".
Sparse conference attendance by senior and junior researchers alike can greatly reduce the overall quality of a conference.
Sparse attendance and a noon start kept the arena hushed, but that did not stop Seton Hall from playing as if it were involved in a midseason Big East game.
In its sparse attendance, this meeting reflects a fundamental shift in Israeli society – despite the students' excuses to the contrary.
Attendance was sparse in Brisbane, but thousand took to the streets of Sydney, as Ten News reports: Radio producer Joel Werner recorded the speeches of the Australian MP David Shoebridge and the senator Lee Rhiannon.
Schools attended, and years in attendance.
It seemed quite a sparse attendance in the large, ordinarily furnished room, for not everyone who'd been at the church had come.
The sparse attendance in Queens came on the same week that the city broke ground on a 6,500-seat 6,500-seatn Coney Island for a minor-league Mets franchise that next season will replace the Queens Kings, now an affiliate of the Toronto ballparks.
Correction: October 27, 2000, Friday An article on Wednesday about New Jersey voters' sparse interest in the Senate race, as shown in polls and in attendance at campaign events, misstated the contest's nationwide rank for spending.
Perhaps that's one reason that the crowd in attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration seems a bit more sparse than in years past.
