Yet miscreants and malefactors have gotten a bit thin on the ground _ at least the kind suitable for the attentions of Clancy's cold-eyed, high-tech warriors.
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British troops remained thin on the ground as much of them still remained idle in Gcalekaland, where they had been sent for the purpose of occupation.
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Holmes Chapel had a reasonable team, but rugby players were thin on the ground at Alsager and there was not much debate about the likely result.
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Now, as buyers are understandably thin on the ground here, local artists may have more hope if they can make it to Jais'new gallery in Paris.
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Extremist political parties are thin on the ground in the tolerant Netherlands but the far right Center Democrat party won three seats in parliamentary elections last year.
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"If I'd have known they were so thin on the ground on St . George's Day, we could have attacked and taken the place without a fight,"
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The wide frontage stretched the 2 / 18th thin on the ground, with no depth and large gaps between positions that were separated in places by tidal waterways.
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It looks as though 3rd party sources which discuss it in this context are thin on the ground . talk ) 21 : 07, 9 May 2014 ( UTC)
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At the start of the story Katinka's mother is living in Old Town, Maine, where potential replacements for her late husband ( Harvard'48 ) are thin on the ground.
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This comes from a view that getting official approval for adminbots is impossible, though I must say that official requests for such bots are pretty thin on the ground.