Sentence examples for course scarcely from inspiring English sources

That the politics of the Blair-Brown "power struggle dominated everything" under New Labour, with Mandelson as the foil in the relationship – or that Brown was the "engine" of Mandelson's "destruction", as he puts it – is of course scarcely new.

Life at court, of course, would scarcely be possible without war.

Some important Lincoln sites, of course, draw scarcely as many people as those who want to gaze at their reflections in the shiny bean at Millennium Park.

He's not crediting God, of course, but that scarcely makes the experience feel any less exalted.

These days, of course, builders can scarcely be bothered to roll over and yawn as they offer a peopleless "atrium" as an amenity.

Of course those two scarcely noticed the ice cold deluge because THEY ARE SCOTTISH AND THAT IS SCOTTISH WEATHER HAHA SCOTLAND.

South Africa are on course for a scarcely believable victory over Australia in the first Test after the tourists threw away a 188-run lead yesterday in Cape Town to be bowled out for an astonishing 47 in their second innings.

On a perfect day for time trialling, hot but not prohibitively so and with little breeze, Daniel Teklehaimanot was first down the ramp to get this Tour de France under way on a city-centre course that could scarcely have been more straight forward unless it had been completely straight and forward.

Of course, you would scarcely recognize the old Wang in the new Wang.

Of course, they're scarcely the only ones getting away with it.

Of course, growth fund investors scarcely noticed taxes in 1999 because they were making so much money.