Sentence examples for material scarce from inspiring English sources

And with reading material scarce in Zarasai, Al became sought after for his ability to trace figures like Little Orphan Annie in the sand for the amusement of his Lithuanian buddies — and the local bullies.

It is possible that small dinosaurs (other than birds) did survive, but they would have been deprived of food, as herbivorous dinosaurs would have found plant material scarce and carnivores would have quickly found prey in short supply.

Good material became scarce.

NASA does pursue cases of fraud, however, and with lunar material so scarce and human gullibility so abundant, there is a ready market for fake Moon rocks.

This can be costly in areas where good quality fill material is scarce.

RNA amplification is used when the amount of starting material is scarce, as is frequently the case with clinical samples.

Epithelial cells of endometriotic tissues are difficult to propagate in vitro as experimental material is scarce owing to their limited life span.

Gene expression profiling has become a tool of choice to study pathological or developmental questions but in most cases the material is scarce and requires sample amplification.

In general, in vivo evidence for specific death phenotypes in animal models and human biopsy material is scarce, weak and superficial.

The utilization of the cytocentrifugation supernatant can especially be of significant value in those cases where the cellular material is scarce or even absent without compromising the material routinely used for other diagnostic tests.

In conclusion, we have constructed a custom macroarray platform ideally suited for the investigation of an intermediate number of genes, in particular when sample material is scarce or when the study population is large.