Sentence examples for a few deficient from inspiring English sources

The investigation into the incident prompted Metro-North to inspect other trains to make sure that the proper cover was on the control panel, he said, and a few deficient ones were found and fixed.

First, we discuss the case where a few slip-deficient grid points are surrounded by a vast aseismic region, which generates a large calculated apparent magnitude.

A few years back, BRCA1/2-deficient cells were shown to be highly sensitive to chemical inhibitors of Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PaRP1), a key molecule in the repair of DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs) (Farmer et al, 2005).

In fact, the deletion collection includes only a few other strains that are deficient in respiration and lack enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid pathway or mitochondrial ATPase.

In most cases, the recipient line used for backcrossing has a large number of favorable attributes but is deficient in a few characteristics.

His statement that "there's not a bad teacher in the bunch" typifies the public stance that most school administrators assume, while most have at least a few teachers that they know are deficient but remain in the school because they have tenure.

Yet, national data on the distribution of physical activity and diabetes are limited to a few small-scale surveys and remain deficient.

If he quit his job and ran away with Ivetta and she grew tired of him — a man without an education, with few talents, deficient in English — he was afraid that he would find himself back at zero.

The podocin-deficient mice die a few days after birth [ 110].

"Citizen cartographers," Google calls us — though it would seem we are deficient in at least a few qualities that great mapmakers require: texture, nuance, subtlety.

The decomposition of CO2 into C and O2 was achieved within a few minutes upon contact with the oxygen-deficient RFSIF/NFNs by incorporation of O2 in the ferrites.