Sentence examples for a scant portion from inspiring English sources

Somehow, the conservancy's ongoing accomplishments barely made it to print in a scant portion of a single sentence in your article, but its author's vitriolic attention was fully engaged by harmless polo chatter and the maunderings of bitter divorcées.

Roll out each portion between sheets of parchment paper or wax paper to a scant 1/4 -inch thickness.

That portion of the discretionary budget is already so small that the proposed cuts will save a scant $10 billion to $15 billion next year--chump change compared to the $145 billion in bonuses for Wall Street's high rollers dispensed after a year of massive national suffering that they engineered.

(It has a scant soundtrack).

Democrats can point to a scant few.

Stitch, using a scant 1/4 " seam allowance.

The process lasted a scant nine minutes.

A scant three or four hands went up.

Zero to 60 acceleration requires a scant 5.4 seconds.

Personal incomes rose a scant 0.2percentt in June.

Solar power is responsible for a scant 0.02percentt.