Sentence examples for generally deficient from inspiring English sources

The poor and unemployed get care from a second, subsidised system with fewer benefits and generally deficient service.

Mediterranean soils are generally deficient in humus, not so much because of sparse vegetation cover as because of the slowness of the chemical processes that convert the vegetable matter to humus.

Foliar P was generally deficient.

Industrial effluents enriched with sulphates are generally deficient in electron donors.

Evaporated films of amorphous WO3 are generally deficient in oxygen, which gives rise to the gap states and n-type semiconductivity.

Some micronutrients, such as zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), and molybdenum (Mo), are generally deficient in highly weathered tropical soils (Barker and Pilbeam 2006); while boron (B) is commonly deficient in soils throughout the world (Lehto et al. 2010).

Vector analysis suggested that N, P, and K were nutrients mostly commonly limiting growth, while Mg and Ca were generally not deficient for the three taxa over four different sampling periods during the growing season.

Patients presenting to the osteoporosis clinic with spinal fractures have generally more deficient bones than those of similar age presenting with hip fractures, including a tendency to a lower hip density.

He remains a national symbol of outré sexuality as well as a rare wit in generally humor-deficient Washington.

Soils derived from ultramafic regoliths are generally nutrient-deficient, have major cation imbalances, and have concomitant high concentrations of potentially phytotoxic trace elements, especially nickel.

Forty-seven ofthef the 342 clones tested formed slow growing colonies on every plate, suggesting that these are generally growth-deficient but not auxotrophic mutants.