Sentence examples for are fairly thin from inspiring English sources

But in this shortened half term week and with continuing worries about Greek debt and the state of the global economy, volumes are fairly thin as investors sit on their hands.

I'm right next door so if you could keep the noise down, the walls are fairly thin – here's your bathroom, oh that's not very nice is it, let me put the lid down, the flush is a bit temperamental, mind, you want to depress and hold for exactly seven seconds, it's all on the note – you've got loo paper?

"Margins are fairly thin, even negative, in the beginning.

Gay-straight alliances are fairly thin on the ground in mainstream culture.

Republican majorities in Congress are fairly thin, but they're probably big enough to prevent legislative reversals of these and other Trump moves.

Note that you should select flat shoelaces that are fairly thin.

"They are fairly thin-skinned.

Yet the musical pickings were fairly thin.

As jazz it was fairly thin, and even as cabaret it had a strangely ascetic feeling.

There were no American-Studies Departments in the academy at the time, and the critical literature was fairly thin.

But, Koper added, the research here was fairly thin and any predictions were "tenuous". Would it be possible to tighten the law?