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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sparse few" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very small number of people or things, emphasizing their scarcity.
Example: "In the vast landscape of options, there were a sparse few that truly stood out to me."
Alternatives: "a select few" or "a limited number".
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Bower gives a sparse few sentences to Northern Ireland in which he forces himself to acknowledge that Blair had a "success" – but only in order to launch an argument that it deluded the accused into thinking he had the capacity to resolve other conflicts.
Because of its great depth, for a long time Davidson Seamount had been preceded only by a sparse few investigations.
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When the table is sparse, few genes are identified as cancer-associated; and for a specific gene, associations with few cancers are identified.
Sans dialogue, via the sparse few words written in subtitles or newspapers, or heard over the radio, we learn that the film takes place in 1982, the twilight of a long and bloody series of military dictatorships ruling Argentina.
Sections stained for PrPd were initially examined blind and the number of PrPd-positive structures were recorded as negative, sparse, few, moderate or marked.
All of the bodies within the solar system, i.e., the planets, satellites, asteroids, comets and dust particles, are immersed in a supersonic (250 800 km/s) flow of a sparse (
The theory of compressive sensing (CS) has shown that it is possible to accurately reconstruct a sparse signal from few (relative to the signal dimension) projection measurements[1, 2].
They were characterized by high tree density, canopy cover, and a sparse understorey with few herbs or true shrubs (not tree saplings).
Compressed sensing is an efficient signal processing technique to recover a sparse signal from fewer samples than required by the Nyquist-Shannon theorem, reducing time and energy spent in sampling operation.
Along the way it passes through Peñamiller, a sparse municipality with a few thousand residents.
The goal of compressed sensing is to reconstruct a sparse signal under a few linear measurements far less than the dimension of the ambient space of the signal.
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