Yet despite more than a century of digging, the fossil record remains maddeningly sparse.
Skin section circumstance: the hair is more sparse, the eyebrow is rarely seen, toenail thin, the tooth develops fair.
Their hooves are small and extremely strong, with little or no feathering, and a sparse mane and tail, often with no forelock.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
This natural-color image of the lower reaches of Big Thompson Canyon illustrates two of the three natural factors that contributed to the flood's severity: steep terrain and sparse vegetation.
Dotted amongst the sparse trees were a dozen low mounds.
The album features more modern instrumentation than his usually sparse efforts, including synths and drum machines.
After a while a rind of white moon and a few sparse stars settled overhead, enough light for him to make out a human form.
A sparse and straightforward ’Options’ dialogue allows you to set the refresh interval, pick an animation, set the sound alert and choose whether the application runs on start-up.
Species that were once sparse started to carpet the plots.
I had paid little heed to the sparse news reports I read.
"Red or white?" asked Roger, whose open shirt revealed a tanned breast dotted with sparse gray hairs and divided by a narrow gold chain.
This woodland used to have a sparse cover of red gums over scattered wattles, with a dense ground layer of grasses and forbs, such as kangaroo grass and yam Daisy.
Pretty sparse, but enough to start the seeds of light and life in the galaxy.
Our hermit packed his wicker box with his sparse possessions—a god's image in copper, a rosary, the deerskin, and a little brass bowl.
The television coverage of the event was rather sparse.
Fifty years ago many hill farmers' fields were sparse, their thin grass a fodder for sheep and cattle.
The bulk access method can not be used for a sparse lookup.
Some cats appear to have markings that are not suited to their natural stalking cheetah, for example, has a distinctive spotted coat but lives in the sparse deserts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Hotels are still priced at low season rates, tourists will be sparse (even at Angkor) and the countryside will be lush and attractive after the monsoon period.
It starts out looking light and sparse.
The evidence on whether portfolio investment affects growth is even more sparse than the evidence on FDI.
She meets us in her sparse office, a grim, Soviet-style building set on a windswept plain.
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