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The phrase "are more scant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is less abundant or more limited in quantity or extent compared to something else.
Example: "The resources available for the project are more scant than we initially anticipated."
Alternatives: "are more limited" or "are more sparse."
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The reports are becoming a tick-box pro forma, and are more scant than they used to be without a shadow of doubt," says Jumnoodoo.
But likelihoods are more scant, by comparison.
Experimental and clinical data on everolimus, the other m-TOR on the market, are more scant.
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Evidence on the Middle East and North Africa is more scant (see Gatti et al. 2012).
Research on the effectiveness of broadband in schools is more scant, however.
It is interesting to say that UK students are more frequent in English literature about 20%, which is not scant.
Classification and description of post-traumatic headache (PTH), as classified in the ICHD-II are even more scant.
Brian Eno, never much of a jazz fan, is more drawn to Davis's scant soundtrack work, but soon digresses to exotic ethnic collages and his own ambient Bloom software in which (Williams asserts somewhat feebly) "the ripples spreading from Kind of Blue can be heard at their faintest".
Type 1 PRCC (single layer of small cells, scant pale cytoplasm) is more common and has a favorable prognosis compared with type 2 (pseudostratified high-grade nuclei, abundant eosinophilic/oncocytic cytoplasm).
It's also never been more lucrative … but that's scant consolation if you don't make it.
Flight 93 was more perfect for mythmaking for being so scant in its facts.
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