Despite this, the outcome was meagre, which is very disappointing.

Considering the meagre results, one might wonder what an unsuccessful summit looks like.

Otherwise, the statistical basis will be fairly meagre and not serve any larger purpose.

All in all however the summit produced fairly meagre results.

All this makes me wonder whether this coup is merely the thin end of the wedge.

Human resources are too thin in relation to the volume of aid that we are supposed to manage.

It was opened barely a week ago.

Even the national parliaments are barely able to exercise scrutiny.

It is therefore expenditure that has been secured by a sacrifice that barely costs us anything.

It is still the case that the most severely disabled barely figure in the labour market.

Fortunately, in a democratic society this is rare.

At this event, water will be treated as a rare economic commodity.

8089 This is actually quite rare in the world of aviation.

It is extremely rare for prosecutors to deal with these crimes.

It is very rare that a common position is rejected by the committee concerned.

Water is a scarce commodity.

Water is a scarce and precious natural resource.

There is also discrimination if the basic requirements of people are made unnecessarily scarce.

27732 Those toxins find their way into the scarce water sources or pollutes arid land.

Auctions allow the market to determine the commercial value of scarce radio spectrum.

The standards are scarcely comparable, let alone transferable.

In that area too, scarcely any progress has been made.

That is scarcely what you would call a responsible social policy.

They are scarcely allowed to take visual artists'   work on commission.

The dramatic nature of the employment problem scarcely needs underlining.

43272 The arguments for that are too slight.

I think the risk of self - censorship is very slight.

I should like to end with a slight dig at the report.

A slight variation in the supply is enough to spark a crisis situation.

27588 I think that that is a slight reversal of the procedure.

There is a tiny bit of history behind this report.

Or a tiny bit of sticking - plaster on a suppurating wound.

16969 In other words, even tiny amounts of these substances can have an effect.

We currently make use of only a tiny number of plant species.

It is difficult to come to terms with an entity so tiny and complete as an embryo.

A slim right - wing majority succeeded in removing any reference to market failures.

We therefore have an organisation in mind which is as slim as possible, and not a large bureaucracy.