Council, although, the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse!

Both fieldwork and statistical studies - the kind of work done, often slowly, in sociology or anthropology departments - is pretty sparse.

Isaac's history lessons were pretty sparse about those distant times.

Crowd was pretty sparse because - no doubt - of the Radiohead effect.

While Merck has tremendous ability to develop new medicines, he said, "we think the original work in Merck labs has been pretty sparse."

On a wintry world like Mulano where there isn't much in the way of vegetation the animal life is pretty sparse also.

I was in the second room, and it was pretty sparse.

Twitter's reception area is pretty sparse on ornaments, bar two brightly painted models of deer and a handful of web awards.

"It's pretty sparse in here," said Conina, "Why don't you furnish it?"

"The Davos hotels are pretty sparse," she said.