The scantiness of the record led to the widespread belief that dinosaurs were on their way out already when the KT impact occurred.

由于缺少化石记录，许多人认为，恐KT击发生的时候已经走向没落。

Whatever be the soil, climate, or extent of territory of any particular nation, the abundance or scantiness of its annual supply must, in that particular situation, depend upon those two circumstances.

无论任特定国家的土壤、气候或领土范围如， 该特定， 其年度供应的丰富或匮乏都必须取决于这两种。

The abundance or scantiness of this supply, too, seems to depend more upon the former of those two circumstances than upon the latter.

这种供应的丰富或匮乏， 似乎也更多地取决于这两种中的前者， 而不是后者。