The phrase "a notable dearth of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a significant lack of something. For example, "The first quarter of the fiscal year showed a notable dearth of new customers."
This time though, Gill and King are working on material for a new album rather than revisiting old favourites – and not a moment too soon, there being a notable dearth of intelligent, politicised rock around these days.
BuzzFeed does have a notable dearth of serious news.
But there was a notable dearth of business people on the panels, and a notable lack of commercial thinking in the proposals as they were slowly hammered out by all the policy-dominated teams.
There is a notable dearth of peer-reviewed evidence surrounding actual predictors associated with birth certificate ownership, particularly in Asia where vast under-registration continues to be unaddressed.
Of relevance to the present research, there is a notable dearth of evidence in the published literature that addresses hygiene care within the broader concept of caring.
To date, relatively few studies have examined the use of NMES in the management of knee OA and there is a notable dearth of studies comparing this modality to more traditional resistance training programs in subjects with knee OA.
With the pretty notable dearth of VR content, conversations surrounding VR's lack of a "killer app" can seem a bit fruitless, but Milk says that the killer app already exists — it's VR storytelling.
Most notable: the dearth of first basemen and the paucity of reliable sources of steals.
We're experiencing a dearth of stand-out leaders.
The festival examines why there was a dearth of notable British composers in the decades before Elgar, and how Elgar, who in many ways remains as enigmatic as his famous "Enigma" Variations, was a product of and also affected his times.
Like many other industries, a notable characteristic of the legal cannabis sector is the dearth of women in leadership roles.
