Sentence examples for scarce known from inspiring English sources

However, most of them showed scarce known connections with the DE genes, with a mean number of five connections.

In 1733, Dr George Cheyne speculated that the English climate, combined with sedentary lifestyles and urbanisation, "have brought forth a class of distemper with atrocious and frightful symptoms, scarce known to our ancestors, and never rising to such fatal heights, and afflicting such numbers in any known nation.

Ms. Pearson cites an 18th-century English treatise blaming city living for "a class and set of distempers, with atrocious and frightful symptoms, scarce known to our Ancestors," that is, "nervous disorders" afflicting a third of the population.

One witness recorded the searing scene, as "frightened little fugitives, fleeing from they scarce knew what" toddled to the foot of 35th Street under a strong guard.

The scarce isotope, known as uranium 235, amounts to just 0.7 percent of mined uranium.

Companies like Showa Denko and Santoku of Japan and Intematix of the United States are adding factory capacity in China this year instead of elsewhere because they need access to the scarce metals, known as rare earths.

Hostplant records for this group are scarce; the known records are mainly from Poaceae, but also from Cyperaceae, Marantaceae and Zingiberaceae [ 35].

Polar bear numbers in key regions have been shown to be declining, but in many areas data is too scarce to know.

However, since no project of this nature had previously been conducted in Manguzi, and skills-building opportunities in the area were scarce, we knew it would not be possible to recruit local field team members who already had the appropriate research skills and experience for our project.

For swallowtails, the fossil record is scarce and the known unambiguous swallowtail fossils do not belong to the Neotropical Troidini genera.

While information about the role of natural antibodies as anti-PC in humans and in clinical conditions has been scarce, more is known in mice-models, where anti-PC IgM protect against lethal meningococcal infections [ 36].