"sparse schedule" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it to describe a schedule that has few activities or events taking place. For example, "Due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools across the country had to transition to a sparse schedule with limited in-person classes".
"I think he is doing exactly what he needs to do," Mrs. Clinton said when asked about Mr. Gore's sparse schedule in New York.
This summer, Joel sold out Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Citizens Bank Park, in Philadelphia, and Nationals Park, in D.C., and, despite the sparse schedule (three shows a month), was the fourth-highest-grossing pop act of the season, behind One Direction, Jay Z and Beyoncé, and Justin Timberlake.
It's hard to find an entrepreneur or high-tech exec that isn't a fan of Red Herring, and despite a sparse schedule of live online events, we just couldn't leave them out.
The stimuli were delivered on a temporally sparse schedule within an ongoing meditative condition: subjects were instructed to attend to their breathing throughout the scan, perform the lexical decision task when a stimulus appeared on the screen, and promptly re-focus their attention to their breathing.
We considered taking the train, but recent experience with dirty, dimly lighted (a k a underfinanced) stations and sparse schedules deterred us.
The rattled Clinton team requested an impromptu addition to what had been a deliberately sparse official schedule, just before the New Hampshire primary on 8 February.
Unfortunately, the relatively sparse sampling schedule in this study precludes using a multi-compartment model and the use of this approach to correct for the removal of drug from the system after CPB.
Assays have been adapted to the field with the development of sensitive methods capable of measuring concentrations in very small volume capillary blood samples, often taken onto filter paper, and by the use of sparse sampling schedules coupled with non-linear mixed-effects modelling to generate pharmacokinetic estimates and investigate sources of variation [ 24].
Given the length of the imaging run (≈20 min), the resulting schedule was sparse enough to allow a reasonable establishment of the baseline condition of refocusing attention to the breathing (inter-stimulus interval: range 1.4 72.9 s, median = 8.2 s, IQR = 12.9 s).
For certain drugs, optimal sampling schedules for sparse and dense sampling may not be available.
All the TROSY-HNCACB data were collected using 15% sparse sampling, with the sampling schedule in the two indirect dimensions generated randomly.
