Sentence examples for After scarcely from inspiring English sources

After scarcely more than a week in port, he laid down his course toward the latest reported position of the largest enemy ship in the Islands.

It closed after scarcely a month in early January.

And after scarcely placing in a number of those years, the J24 sailboat sponsored by the magazine had won.

Launched after scarcely any consultation with private or foreign businesses, it shies away from the most difficult and badly needed reforms.

The cold war may be over, but Janusz Bugajski's term, "cold peace",for what has come after, scarcely does justice now to the widening gap between Russia and the West.

2. After short stints at Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Givenchy, the designer Joseph Altuzarra has waltzed onto the must-see list after scarcely a year, with collections that inject a jolt of Versace va-va-voom into Sanderesque shapes.

(The circulating library at Frederick's had recommended "The Peasants," by some Pole who had won the Nobel Prize, to my grandmother, who read it night after night, scarcely making any progress).

As is his wont, Trout was waxing lyrical about his time in cricket, his touring experiences, how much he loved the Caribbean, and banged off memory after memory scarcely drawing breath.

These the cavalry pursued over the very open plains, and after leaving scarcely a fourth part out of the number of 50,000, which it was certain had assembled out of Aquitania and from the Cantabri, returned late at night to the camp.

As Peter Hennessy and his research assistant, James Jinks, remind us in their authoritative and compelling history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service (RNSS) after 1945, scarcely any part of the world's oceans has escaped the presence of a British "boat" over the past century and, since April 1969, the UK's ballistic missile submarines have not missed a single day on patrol.

After a scarcely perceptible hesitation, she led me to a squalid, tiled cell behind the kitchen.