The filet mignon carpaccio was so thinly sliced it had to be scraped from the plate on to the fork to be eaten, making the flavor difficult to discern.
A market-fresh picnic is going to be good no matter what, but what made mine unbeatable was the prosciutto, which was so thinly sliced and silkily moist that it draped over my fingers like wet tissue paper.
A unit of about 200 American soldiers had patrolled an area of half a million people and was so thinly spread that its captain had to drive 12 hours to hold a meeting with a local leader.
Mr. Campeau had been buying his way into the American retail scene, including a disastrous $6.5 billion acquisition of Federated Department Stores in 1988, but was so thinly financed that landlords worried he could not handle his rent.
But, in actuality, Nevada was so thinly populated when the river was divided up that its allotment is very small just two per cent of the total and it actually takes less than that, primarily because Las Vegas has some of most stringent water-conservation regulations in the country.
Clearnet, a clearing house, has twice increased the margin it requires from its members on holdings of Irish government debt, in no small part because its market is so thinly traded that prices can easily swing wildly.Another feature of the market in recent months is that banks have been consistent sellers of peripheral-country debt.
There's a cursory scene in which Giovanni confesses to an outraged cleric, but otherwise the ethical and psychological basis of the relationship is so thinly explored it's hard to feel that Ford's interest in the subject was anything other than prurient.
Although usually opaque, some stoneware is so thinly potted that it is somewhat translucent.
"Most of these currencies are so thinly traded that it doesn't take much to move them one way or the other".
The other characters, while much more likable, are so thinly drawn that it's hard, a few minutes after leaving the theater, to recall anything they did or said.
