adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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Local reports from Bavaria, however, especially from rural areas, mentioned very sparse flagging.
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Driven out from richer regions, all they now had were these vast but very sparse pastures.
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After this, evidence about Anne Batten Cristall's life is very sparse .
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Scholarly comment on this passage is very sparse .
■ NOUN
population
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But with their sparse population they are scarcely worth the price of a campaign advertisement.
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Its still sparse population seems shrunk, as it were, in such outsize garments.
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Background: Montana, our fourth largest state but with a sparse population , is home to large herds of elk.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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sparse traffic
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He combed back his sparse hair.
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Information on the disease is sparse .
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Trees are sparse in this part of the world because of the continuous wind that blows across the plains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agriculture in the south will suffer as underground water is exhausted and already sparse summer rain disappears.
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Details of Dixon's life are sparse and sometimes contradictory.
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Driven out from richer regions, all they now had were these vast but very sparse pastures.
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From our sparse apartment, a daily warmth could be made to exist.
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However, sunshine was a sparse commodity and we found the short, dark winter days of these latitudes very depressing at first.
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Reading from an empty area of a sparse file will return garbage.
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They can, therefore, exist quite happily in areas of sparse vegetation.