Example sentences of "[was/were] thin on [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few German Shepherds and Dobermanns guarding the larger properties , and the security guard at the hotel had a Rottweiler but , by and large , dogs were thin on the ground and were usually medium to large brown mongrels . |
| 2 | Normally , to go out alone would have been unthinkable , but unoccupied men were thin on the ground now and invitations almost non-existent . |
| 3 | By the mid-1970s , managers and executives in the late 30s to late 40s age group were thin on the ground . |
| 4 | Appreciably bigger than Skipton , High Wycombe , as the leading town of Buckinghamshire , contained a solid merchant class which made per capita wealth there half as high again as in the villages of the Chilterns where really rich men were thin on the ground . |
| 5 | Major launches were thin on the ground . |
| 6 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 7 | There were pockets of disaffection in other parts of the country , amongst Anglicans and even Quakers , but these were thin on the ground ; the memories of the 1680s were still too powerful to make many people seriously wish to see the Stuarts back on the throne again . |
| 8 | Jokes were thin on the ground but when Mr Lamont spoke of a new form of do-it-yourself income tax form for the self employed one MP raised a titter when he shouted : ‘ At least that 'll suit one person — John Birt ( the BBC director general ) ’ . |
| 9 | Werner Niefer , the top man at Mercedes-Benz , was on hand but otherwise , German industry chiefs were thinner on the ground than usual with the unification celebrations in Berlin . |
| 10 | The cabs were thinner on the ground now , so I kept a couple of cars between us . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly , business news was thin on the ground . |