The phrase "a sparse collection of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a limited or insufficient number of items or elements in a particular category or context.
Example: "The library had a sparse collection of books on ancient history, making it difficult for researchers to find comprehensive resources."
Alternatives: "a limited selection of" or "a meager assortment of".
A sparse collection of giant columns, white inside the glass walls, red outside, hold up its delicate, refined roof.
Government Cabinet Office Basic site, with a sparse collection of cabinet press briefings and links to other government departments.
A sparse collection of aughts-era photos and video shows them in unnerving numbers, as uniform and multitudinous as bees on a hive.
I sit by the kitchen, listening to the waiters philosophize: "In the history of the world, no one who has ever worked high all the time has kept their job," one fellow with a sparse collection of teeth informs another.
He looked professorial and to-the-point, much like his office décor, if you could call it that -- a sparse collection of psychology textbooks and self-help resources littering some plain wooden shelves.
Among germline techniques for cell marking, 'mosaic analysis with a repressible cell marker' (MARCM) in Drosophila, and its cousin 'mosaic analysis with a double marker' (MADM) in mice, are conceptually the most general as they produce a sparse collection of cells distinguished by the exchange of a pre-defined chromosome arm that can carry an arbitrary set of genetic markers [11], [12].
That year's Rubbed Out was a tender, sparse collection of material featuring a brilliant cover of Paul McCartney's "Coming Up that saw him veer away from the eclectically electronic melange he served up in his day job.
While this last challenge is being partially addressed by the creation of BAC transgenic lines that express GFP or Cre in defined subsets of cells [e.g. refs 49], [50], the challenge of visualizing individual neuronal morphologies can only be met by a method that generates a relatively sparse collection of labeled neurons.
Third, initiating doxycycline exposure between E2 and E4 and delivering 4HT between E10 and E12 gives dose-dependent recombination that results in a relatively sparse collection of AP+ RGCs suitable for the analysis of single cell morphologies [e.g.], [ experiments 2], [ 3], [ 11], [ 12], [ 24] [27]; (Figure 2C,E).
By contrast, the strategy presented here exploits inefficient recombination to produce an extremely sparse collection of labeled neurons.
Newspapers have run articles giving step-by-step instructions to voters, and many residents of Yangon have received fliers from candidates or seen the sparse collection of election posters.
