Sentence examples for by a scant from inspiring English sources

He won his home state of Minnesota by a scant 3,800 votes (less than 0.2percentt).

This month, those racing physicists are breasting the tape.Sons of BsThe winners, by a scant two weeks, are the Americans.

In the EU, despite huge investments, passenger mileage on urban rail systems has risen by a scant 9% since 1970.

I beat him out in the stretch by a scant two feet". Curtis ran the hurdles that day in 17.6 seconds.

My former (and once again) employer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, was one of the first wave, preceded by a scant few like the Free Software Foundation.

Hakulinen overtook Norway's Håkon Brusveen twice in the last 10 km, ultimately winning by a scant 0.8 second and securing the gold medal for Finland.

You can recycle the compost left over from pots of tomatoes by adding a scant hand of organic chicken manure or comfrey pellets.

She was even more offended by Williams' making a scant eleven mentions of her, calling her "an occasional actress," and promising the reader "I will write more about Maria later".

According to a study released this afternoon by Internet research firm Jupiter Communications, the traffic that portals are sending merchants who pay for tenancy will represent just 20% of merchant revenues by 2002, up a scant 2% from the 18% of revenue resulting from portal traffic in 1998.

Against a backdrop of prolonged consumer stinginess, reinforced Friday by reports of a scant monthly increase in August retail sales, an anemic back-to-school performance may herald more economic sluggishness to come.

Subsequently, CD56+CD34+CD144+CD45− cells have been isolated by FACS as a scant cell population.