1.   My comparative lack of basic talent came home to me on the practice ground before the first round of the Amateur.

2.   But English technique has been exposed as inadequate, while the comparative lack of success of our own spinners has been equally disturbing.

3.   What she does regret, though, is the comparative lack of guitar repertoire from her favourite Romantic period.

4.   Some of the nature of the McCain campaign was developed because of his comparative lack of money, which forced some unorthodox thinking.

5.   The drop-off is attributable partly to a comparative lack of detention beds, and partly to a statistical quirk, INS officials said.

6.   Their comparative lack of military hardware does not matter, they said.

7.   He said the comparative lack of manpower of the Kuwaiti forces was not a handicap.