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rare birds

Our land abounds in nature’s gifts, Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair!

Complete agreement between theory and practice is a rare case.

Rare gems include aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby.

My haircut only cost 1,000 yen. That's pretty rare these days. He probably didn't have a license.

It's rare that history comes with a man that his fear is set in the hearts of kings all around earth.

If we don't make the utmost effort to protect the rainforests, many of the rare species in them will become extinct.

Every rare thing is expensive, besides a cheap horse is rare, therefore a cheap horse is expensive.

We only meet on the rare occasions when one of our friends has birthday.

1. In rare cases, they may last a day or two. 2. It's rare to see sth like this.

Colourful zebras are rare these days so you'll be lucky to see them

Snow is a rare sight in Spain. / 2. I know, but it's a rare item and rare items cost a lot. / 3. Humility and humor, a rare combination. / 4. You have a rare, natural talent. / 5. You have a rare beauty, Ann.

a rare feeling when you do not run after a bus, you just wait for it like regular people

Send them to distant lands to seek some rare treasure. This is a rare vintage from an obscure village in Bordeaux.

Furniture is sparse in this room

sparse vegetation

By the year 1900 only a sparse population was left.

News of activities for the period 1683 to 1693 is rather sparse.

sparse population/vegetation/hair/rainfall

Set aside some quiet time twice a day to count kicks, once in the morning, when activity tends to be sparser, and once in the more active evening hours.

My hair is very sparse... but I'm old, so what do I care?

information coming out of the disaster area is sparse

sparsely populated

Silently, it slipped across the darkened hangar bay toward the other ships, taking advantage of the sparse cover along the way.

There are sparse data on the role of private practice in Iraq.

It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.

That boy is a handful.

He scooped up sand by the handful.

There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood.

The boy gathered a handful of peanuts and put them in a small box.

handful of sth

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Only a handful of activists are articulate in our union.

Think of your opponent as nothing more than a handful of ash.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

handful of giant companies are engaged in a “silent takeover” of the world.

She invited all her friends to her party, but only a handful of them turned up.

These companies are only a handful among the more than 150 in Government hands

"But won't they think us rather a handful?"

Psychologist Eric Uhlmann, from the Paris School of Management, has done a handful of studies that picked apart how differently people feel about different kinds of money

A handful of volunteers has been involved in the research.

Oil deposits will have become scarce by 2050.

money/water became scarce

It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.

A seller's market is a market in which goods are relatively scarce, buyers have a limited range of choice, and prices are high.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

And the demand for cheap produce often encourages wasteful use of scarce water resources.

University places are scarce in China and many students go abroad to study.

scarce resources

An interscise in the wall where scarce a knife blade would have gone. Good teachers are really scarce.

We need to talk to the management. We have scarce resources to start the project.

I need you to make yourself scarce.

if sth is scarce, there is not enough of it and it is only available is small quantities

as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed

In today's world, possessions are plentiful, but time is scarce.

In our office the women outnumber the men three to one.

In fact, at the present time women outnumber men at university and also obtain better results.

they outnumbered us as well

The demonstrators were heavily outnumbered by the police.

Women now far outnumber men on language courses.

Negative comments outnumber positive ones.

now greatly outnumber