Historical clue formulations

• Thin on the ground — 2026-08-18
• Scattered — 2025-06-21
• Not densely packed — 2025-01-15
• Unimpressive, attendance-wise — 2024-03-20
• Like the population of Greenland — 2023-01-13
• Few and far between — 2022-03-22
• Meager — 2021-06-10
• Few and far between — 2020-09-30
• Few and far between — 2018-05-16
• Not abundant — 2018-04-13
• Like the population of Wyoming — 2016-12-19
• Thinly distributed — 2016-06-29
• Like people in Yukon Territory — 2015-03-10
• Like the people of Siberia — 2014-11-06
• Thin in supply — 2012-04-22
• Like a poor attendance — 2012-01-18
• Few and far between — 2010-09-06
• Like trees on a prairie — 2008-03-04
• In short supply — 2007-08-26
• Meager — 2006-12-10
• Scant — 2006-01-31
• Thinly spread — 2005-05-25
• Like the hair under a comb-over — 2005-01-06
• Spread out — 2004-07-13
• Thin — 2004-03-27
• Thinly spread — 2003-04-02
• Few and far between — 1999-06-06
• Spread out — 1997-06-08
• Scattered — 1997-01-08
• Scattered — 1996-09-06
• Thin — 1996-02-29
• Hardly dense — 1996-02-16
• Not plentiful — 1995-12-25
• Scanty — 1995-06-04
• Exiguous — 1995-06-03
• Scattered — 1994-10-02
• Uncrowded — 1994-08-14