be thinly spread
Frequency: 6.27.1 per million words
when a resource is distributed over too large an area or too many people, making it ineffective
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- Expertise in this field is very thinly spread across the country.
- With only three engineers, the team's resources are thinly spread across multiple projects.
- She felt thinly spread trying to manage both her career and family responsibilities.
- The company's budget for innovation was so thinly spread that no single project received adequate funding.
- If our attention becomes too thinly spread, we risk losing focus on our core objectives.
- Healthcare services are often thinly spread in rural areas, leading to longer waiting times.
- The manager realized his staff was thinly spread and needed to hire more people.
- By taking on too many clients, the consultant found her time thinly spread.
- The organization's efforts were thinly spread across too many different causes.
- Critics argued that the new policy would leave public funds too thinly spread to make a real impact.