Sentence examples for be of scant from inspiring English sources

While a new tax is likely, it might be of scant value if mineral prices plunge.

That price may be of scant comfort to people who owned the stock before the financial disaster.

Such assurances may be of scant comfort to vendors in 27 categories -- from air-conditioning repair to window washing -- whose performances have been reviewed for public scrutiny.

It will be of scant comfort to No 10 today, but the deal represents something of a victory for the British position.The negotiations had been peculiarly complex, even by EU standards.

The cockpit voice recorder may be of scant help in this case: it records only the last two hours of audio before a plane crash - while in the case of MH370, the plane may have flown for hours after the critical events took place.

But that will be of scant consolation to those who believed the book, since 13 years later the Dow is at around 13,000, not 36,000.One obvious problem with their reasoning was that, although equities might have beaten bonds over most long periods, the horizon of the average investor is much shorter.

The city's noise code is of scant help in such situations, Ms. Bronzaft said.

The international programme, where cash is of scant help, can look like an excursion into mediocrity.

The result is a decline in intra-Asian exports.That explanation, however, is of scant consolation to other Asian exporters.

Further education funding prioritises lower-level skills and qualifications, which is of scant value to the over-25s.

Dernbach did pick up the wicket of Brendon McCullum but the soft manner of the dismissal will have been of scant consolation.