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"meagre knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone has limited understanding or knowledge about something. For example: "Given his meagre knowledge of the legal system, he was ill-prepared to defend himself in court."
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In recent years, the men in Tyson's corner have usually been hysterics of meagre knowledge.
Given the meagre knowledge on coral population genetics and the limited competency for genetic discrimination, the currently available molecular tools do not allow the evaluation of genetic relatedness in natural coalescences.
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Meanwhile, it is a curious fact that this meagre kind of knowledge is sufficient for the practical uses of physics.
For morphological character evolution, the impact of this prior distribution on the realizations has received meagre attention and to our knowledge has not been thoroughly assessed using empirical data.
While much light has been shed on the mechanisms and rate of genome evolution in flowering plants, such knowledge remains conspicuously meagre for the gymnosperms.
However, it's common tech industry knowledge that Apple makes fairly meagre profits from iTunes, as it's largely a honeypot to get consumers to buy Apple hardware, sales from which form the bulk of their profits.
Knowledge of the physical and biological background is meagre; not least the explanation of the relatively high tolerance for ionising radiation of the normal liver tissue, but it is probably related to the low dose rate of radionuclide therapy and dose heterogeneity, allowing for regeneration from low-dose regions in the normal liver parenchyma.
Only HSBC, a British bank, and GE Capital come close to matching its breadth of reach and depth of local knowledge.But this globetrotting has so far yielded meagre returns.
However, the knowledge of the metabolite accumulates in different ascidians chemical diversity are meagre.
Compensation has been meagre.
What meagre compensation.
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