(1) The Great Basin, so called because its scanty water doesn't drain to any sea, is mostly a terrain of north-south-running ranges, sharp-edged raw geology, separated by flat expanses of sagebrush.

(2) The fabrics selected for this collection have something of the 1600's courtesan, though the dresses and skirts are quite scanty .

(3) If Aboriginal numbers in 1788 were at the higher end of the estimated range, this epidemic would have been the chief killer, but information is scanty in the extreme.

(4) The desert ecosystem poses difficult problems - the forest area is scanty with poor growth of vegetation.

(5) A long-term decline in police-neighborhood relations may well have occurred, but direct evidence is scanty , while other factors also weakened these relations.

(6) Estimates of children with ADHD range from one to 20 percent, partly due to scanty evidence provided by inadequate surveys.

(7) I didn't bring much, seeing as we were only staying for a few days, but I did bring a variety of scanty clothing that I would be wearing at the party.

(8) His scanty remarks are limited to generalities.

(9) A double-digit rise in the welfare budget for two consecutive years is also inevitable, considering both the widening income gap and scanty social safety net.

(10) A thong is not a piece of scanty swimwear, as in America, but a fine example of Australian footwear.

(11) For the next couple of months tuck away the scanty summer wear and the thin knit winter wear to make room for the monsoon gear.

(12) All focus at present is on water, may it be due to termination of water accords or failure of monsoon or scattered, scanty rain, scarce power to operate tubewells.

(13) Yes, form-fitting clothing may be necessary to demonstrate proper technique, but scanty clothing may send a negative message.

(14) Only scanty information could be gleaned from POWs.

(15) Am I to understand your primary concern in this matter is that you and your arty male colleagues will be exposed as the u2018typeu2019 of men who ogle women in scanty spring dresses?

(16) No food, no clogs and their poor bodies barely covered with scanty clothing, how can they give their minds to their lessons?

(17) Rick shivered as a dry southern wind blew across the buildings of the city, ruffling his scanty clothing and causing him to gaze about in worry.

(18) He stands there, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing standing next to him.

(19) Any woman now seems to be able to make such a complaint and to be believed, with incredibly scanty evidence.

(20) Suzie, a pretty, slightly vacuous woman dressed in rather scanty clothing, stands there.

(21) He may not have broken any laws but it is clear that what scanty guidelines exist to control patronage and cronyism were stretched at will to accommodate his u2018suggestionsu2019.

(22) She said details of the case were u2018highly unusualu2019 and a note about the promised investment was u2018extraordinarily scanty by any standardsu2019.

(23) Then Aurora noticed the scanty slip dress and strappy heels she was wearing and decided that the girl didn't look so angelic anymore.

(24) The evidence was relatively scanty , but much depended on the interpretation of the statute of Edward II that defined treason in terms of u2018compassing or imagining the death of the Kingu2019.

(25) Ignoring palaeological niceties, some u2018humanu2019 skeletons have been dated at around two million years old and provide us with much of the scanty evidence we have concerning the evolution of our species.

(26) Teenage boys are more likely to be attracted by her scanty clothing and big guns.

(27) They say the boots are the perfect finishing touch for their artificial tans, bleached hair, white make-up and bright scanty skirts.

(28) We made our way into the lobby, where about a million other giggly, screaming girls dressed in ridiculously scanty things were frolicking.

(29) It hurts to see young girls dressed in scanty clothes being taken advantage of by older boys after getting drunk.

(30) The 152 deaths on which they would be trying to contact the families of those involved were ones in which there was scanty evidence, in most cases nothing beyond a copy of the register of deaths.