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The legal position may be perfectly clear but it may also be forgotten, scanted, overlooked or under-emphasised.

The ways in which criteria have been selected and operationalised has been subjected to only scant discussion.

There is scant evidence for this pheno menon, however.

However, scant attention has been given to the idea that poor communication may also have an economic impact worthy of attention.

In the absence of historical documents, one can first look at the scant available ethnohistorical data.

Moreover, this possible situation might be reinforced by the scant view toward the future with respect to the lack of applicability analyses in most cases.

Relevant practice pattern studies are scant and will be needed to confirm the validity of this model.

Yiddish "grammar," as we shall soon see, must by its very nature be scant and without many rules.

Here, the need to consolidate constituencies has left factions with scant room for manoeuvre.

Such self-funding or privately paying residents have received scant research attention compared with those who are publicly funded.

We also present the scant empirical evidence on cross-linguistic syntactic priming and underline the need for further research.

Evidence from excavation is scant in this wide-ranging work, which might more accurately be described as grounded in materiality rather than archaeology.

There is little mention of the significance of charcoal, and fire receives scant attention.

Evidence to support such an inference is still scant.

While these questions are beginning to be addressed, research is quite scant.

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