The phrase "a scarce number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a limited or insufficient quantity of something.
Example: "In the recent survey, we found a scarce number of participants willing to share their experiences."
Alternatives: "a limited number" or "a small number".
So AJAM is fighting for a scarce number of eyeballs.
Companies could use them to assist decision-making or to proliferate the skills of a scarce number of experts throughout the organization.
"On demand side we have people living in the cities, which do not have a local airport or have one with a scarce number of direct flights, which usually means higher prices of tickets".
The system based on Tesla M2070 incorporates Fermi technology, but due to a scarce number of devices available, a scalability study has been completed with a system based on 4 Tesla C1060 GPUs that allow projections be made of parallel efficiency rates in more modern systems.
In the literature, a scarce number of reports were published on the relationship between ethnic background and IVF outcome.
Taken together, although based on a scarce number of studies, there are data to support an association between gastrectomy and risk of laryngeal and pharyngeal cancer.
The AMDH population was the least polymorphic with the lowest number of markers and an overall lower marker density: many regions were not polymorphic at all or had a very scarce number of markers.
Physician training can influence referral decision-making, but in the Basque Country most of the GPs have completed the Family Medicine Residency Program and only a very scarce number of doctors are not family physicians.
A higher number of patients without PCa and particularly without HGPCa are correctly classified under the threshold point of 40%% of the nomogram, with a very scarce number of patients with PCa and HGPCa missed in the interval between 30 and 40%% (Fig. 3a and b).
Moreover, their scarce number means a profitable market for the suppliers, because the demand for better, individual services is constantly increasing among the growing urban bourgeoisie.
A good argument for the lack of success could be levelled at the scarce number of compatible games on store shelves, with only a few – such as Eye of Judgement – taking full advantage of the technology while other games, such as Burnout Paradise, simply use the camera to take your winning photograph.
