"We do have some indications that there are some shallow graves that may have been found in the north, " Brooks said, when asked about the Kirkuk graves.

CNN: Mystery Kirkuk graves examined

Some shallow recessions take less time to recover from.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The uplifting also means that oil sands deposits are relatively shallow: some can even be surface-mined like coal.

FORBES: The Promise And Pitfalls Of Canada's Oil Sands

Some will accuse me here of typically shallow American intellectual thinking or even religious bias.

FORBES: The American Dream And The Gospel of Success

The media has taken some flak in recent months for being shallow, inaccurate and sometimes damagingly obtrusive.

BBC: Why are India's media under fire?

Yes, some consumers are spending, but any return of confidence is shallow and spotty.

CNN: So This is a Rally?

In fact, the pit was shallow enough to lead you to think that there might have been some other intention for it foundations for a house, maybe, that never made it any further.

NEWYORKER: Gravel

They drank some whiskey and watched the fire burn until the downpour drowned the flames in the shallow pit.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Estrellas y Rascacielos'

Data from the Sharad (SHAllow RADar) instrument (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), document that some of these glacial-like features, which you find at Mars' mid-latitudes, have a significant volume of ice left below a surface of rock debris.

BBC: Q&A: Liquid water on Mars

The shallow hole was surrounded by salvaged chairs and shaded by a blue canvas canopy they had stolen from some resort because property was always already theft and anyway they had really wanted a canopy.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Estrellas y Rascacielos'