Sentence examples for while scarce from inspiring English sources

An obscure 17th-century religious tract, while scarce or even unique, may be of no interest to anyone; contrast that with the extreme desirability of the 1594 quarto edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus or the Diamond Sutra, printed in China from woodblocks in c. ad 868 each known to survive in only a single copy.

Actually, the acknowledged current methods to estimate the bio-degradability are mainly based on laboratory tests and measurements under controlled conditions, while scarce information are available on the effective transformation of bio-film derivatives in real composting facilities.

Among dynamic failure processes, spall fracture in solid materials has been extensively studied for many years, while scarce data can be found yet about how such phenomenon could evolve after partial or full melting on compression or on release.

As shown in Fig. 4D, LLnL treatment causes the increase of wild-type EPOR while scarce change of mutated EPOR level was observed.

Urease, a major component of H. pylori bodies, is known to be internalized by lamina propria cells [11] as well as luminal and intraepithelial granulocytes [12], while scarce evidence is available concerning epithelial cells.

While scarce, markers offered a surprisingly high discrimination power.

You won't find anything much like it in American contemporary art, where the nervous and the nutty, while not scarce, are unmediated by any social contract.

It's a system that wrongs individuals while wasting scarce resources in a prison service so short of cash that many prisoners are locked up for 23 hours a day.

Rice with a C4 photosynthesis mechanism would have increased photosynthetic efficiency while using scarce resources such as land, water, and fertilizer specifically nitrogen more effectively (Hibberd et al. 2008).

While still scarce and random, these dates establish that the timescale in which colonization events and use of regional space happened, archaeologically evaluated, covers a span comprised between mid-Early Holocene and final Late Holocene.

Other research has hinted at the sea plant's potential to prevent toxic algal blooms and provide habitat for marine life, as well as even generate sustainable energy and food while preserving scarce fresh water for humans.