scant attention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofscantandattention
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scant
adjective[before noun]
uk/skænt/us/skænt/
very little and ...
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attention
noun[U]
uk/əˈten.ʃən/us/əˈten.ʃən/
notice, thought, ...
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(Definition ofscantandattentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Indeed, morphology is another area that receivesscantattention.
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But these performances receivedscantattentionwhen set against the alluring array of non-musical events.
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There is little mention of the significance of charcoal, and fire receivesscantattention.
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Carers and those with a tenuous relationship to paid work getscantattention.
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Scantattentionis paid to other economic concerns people may have.
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Ethnographers have long emphasized the exotic and paidscantattentionto similarities across cultures.
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The more utilitarian structures of this period have receivedscantattention.
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Policy-makers and researchers have by and large paidscantattentionto ombudsmen.
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Throughout the region, the problems of older people have receivedscantattention.
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The sculpture is paid dutiful butscantattentionin the many encomiums dedicated to the building.
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Functional equations of the form (2.9) have receivedscantattentionin the literature.
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Scantattentionis paid to succession in both the small business literature and in mainstream sociology.
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It has receivedscantattentionsince.
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Nuclear power has hadscantattentiontonight.
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They were certainly givenscantattentiontoday.
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Local knowledge and local action are stressed and yet the significance of local language receives, by comparison,scantattention.
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What is surprising is thescantattentionpaid to the philosophical foundations that justify and motivate this argument.
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Such arguments would now warrantscantattentionif the same problem had not re-emerged in modern anthropological writing.
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The there-cleft has so far received onlyscantattentionin mainstream grammars, barring a few notable exceptions.
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Particularlyscantattentionhas been paid to the social organisation of the lifecourse and the transitions into and through adulthood.
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By contrast, the problem of the interaction of a shock wave with a mixing region has receivedscantattention.
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A collection of research methods is proposed that, taken together, can answer these questions, which have hitherto receivedscantattention.
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One topic that receivesscantattentionin this chapter is the extent and importance of intraspecific variation in seed size.
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