Sentence examples for are sparse in number from inspiring English sources

The SSCs, which are sparse in number (one in 3,000 adult testis cells), offer a stark measure of the sexes' different reproductive potentials.

In a state where Affirmative Action was outlawed in 1996 by Proposition 209, race conscious admissions is simply illegal and underrepresented minorities at most select University of California campuses are sparse in number.

In contrast, along the jp edge, very slowly growing at this stage, the cells are sparse in number, and flattened – a situation that changes markedly along the same edge during jp veil formation later.

Those on board expected creatures to be sparse in number and entering hibernation.

Some Sufi mosques, which follow mystical traditions, welcome gay Muslims, though their numbers are sparse in the United States.

NCI-60 datasets are sparse in mutations (24 valid genes), copy number variations (219 valid genes) and DNA methylations (320 valid genes).

But unemployment and welfare benefits are sparse in Japan.

Similar to real LC MS/MS runs, a range of challenge MS/MS spectra were sparse in the number of product ion peaks, causing in silico tools to fail for lack of data (Additional file 1: Table S4).

Speech signal is known to be sparse in the time-frequency domain: the number of time-frequency points where the speech signal is active (i.e., of non negligeable energy) is small comparing to the total number of time-frequency points (cf. Figure 8).

Our results support general belief that the absolute number of spindles is sparse in digastric and mylohyoideus muscles.

Because the data is sparse in the early part of the period, the footprint (i.e., number of sites impacted) of larger events are inevitably underestimated.