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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a scant selection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a limited or insufficient variety of options available in a particular context.
Example: "The store had a scant selection of books, making it difficult for me to find something to read."
Alternatives: "a limited selection" or "a meager selection".
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Frank has published only a scant selection of pictures from that journey.
Although the small data sets demonstrate at the most fundamental level the effects of outgroup selection, they still consider only a scant taxonomic sampling.
WINE LIST -- A scant list of fewer than 25, mainly California selections, priced from $20 to $70.
(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.
I had been at the school a scant twenty minutes.
In a scant four hours, we had reached Bangalore.
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