Sentence examples for a scant minute from inspiring English sources

She checked on the scallops after two minutes, and then a scant minute later removed the tray from the oven.

How long I tarried there I do not know, yet even a scant minute would have justified my long journey across barren prairies to the city of men beside the Great Lake where the precious hoard had come to rest.

With Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr. (who just announced that he and wife Susan are expecting a boy), Jodie Foster, Pharrell Williams plus director Guy Ritchie and girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley gracing the red carpet, even Holmes himself might have blown his legendary cool for a scant minute.

Rescue boats reached the downed plane within a few scant minutes.

I think I'm fully energized for a few scant minutes around noon, but that's about it.

Also, just before lowering the bird into the oil, and again just before taking it out a scant 49 minutes -- 49 minutes!

The process lasted a scant nine minutes.

I had been at the school a scant twenty minutes.

He raced through the fourth set, winning 6-1 in a scant 25 minutes.

Or more divided?" he said in a speech that lasted a scant 13 minutes.

The Lakers turned the building into a madhouse in a scant 2 minutes 5 seconds.