This time, to say opportunities are thin on the ground would be a massive understatement.
Yet the latter can be useful, particularly when the former are still rather thin on the ground.
But despite growing recognition of nature deficit disorder, policies aiming to tackle it appear thin on the ground.
Women are also thin on the ground when it comes to positions of power in public and political life.
And Lib Dem victories have so far been embarrassingly thin on the ground.
That being more or less the standard line-up tends to confirm my belief that constitutional purists are thin on the ground.
City are likely to bolster their squad in the new year as injuries and suspensions have left them thin on the ground.
Many of the disagreements from that meeting are still unresolved - although anti-globalisation protesters are likely to be thin on the ground.
Mr Obama's visible domestic successes have been rather thin on the ground.
Any group that is thin on the ground will not have much of a local constituency wherever it decides to set up camp.
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And where American sources are thin on the ground, his account is less accomplished, particularly on Pakistan, which is arguably the most important battlefield.
Sights to gawp at are thin on the ground, but the city streets have enough going on to enthrall even the most disinterested visitor.
Truly creative entrepreneurs are thin on the ground and, when they do appear, too many choose to migrate to America rather than stay at home.
Successful mergers in the computer industry are thin on the ground.
That price can overshoot both on the way up and on the way down, particularly when buyers are thin on the ground and sellers are distressed.
Evidence for past supernovae is thin on the ground, although in 1999 German researchers found traces of iron-60 in south Pacific sediments ( Physical Review Letters, vol 83, p 18).
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"We are little bit thin on the ground if we get injuries to major players - if we lose a Rooney or a Steven Gerrard, " he added on 5 live's Sportsweek.
Besides, other liberal candidates are thin on the ground.
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Further complication came from the fact that very little in this event was a surprise. iOS 5 had already been announced and described in some detail, so even when the product announcements began, new news was a little thin on the ground.
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Lords Garel-Jones and Howard were both linked with the Welsh job during the Thatcher and Major years when Welsh Conservative cabinet material was thin on the ground and any junior minister with tenuous connections to Wales would find himself linked with the job.
The development of the peculiarly Parisian art of binding owes much to Mr Gillet, who commissioned many works and even helped some binders Adler in particular to stave off bankruptcy in the years immediately before and after the war when new commissions were thin on the ground.
They sat above the ground on stilts, like flamingos balanced on impossibly thin legs.
That has made thin-film solar particularly attractive to utilities that have deployed them in huge arrays on the ground to generate hundreds of megawatts of electricity.
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