Sentence examples for even a scant from inspiring English sources
Even a scant crop of peas was passed around the conference room table as a snack.
For iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch); not rated Super Hexagon is a bull ride of a video game, an endeavor in which success means surviving even a scant five seconds.
How long I tarried there I do not know, yet even a scant minute would have justified my long journey across barren prairies to the city of men beside the Great Lake where the precious hoard had come to rest.
But - and it's a big but - despite this heady picture, South Africa's book-buying public is, according to Jenny Hobbs, literary director of the Franschhoek writers' festival, "too small to fund even a scant living for most local writers".
The question is whether someone who is so little known and has what even Republicans describe as a scant résumé has the authority to make those attacks credible — unlike, say, her counterpart on the Democratic side, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, a veteran of foreign and domestic policy who attacked Mr. McCain last week.
Though $23‐million for construction was an outright grant, the $20‐million in bonds for the underground parking lot will be paid back from revenues, leaving the center a scant profit even at $1.75 parking fees.
The Pan African Congress PACC), which advocated black nationalism, drew his ire in particular, even though it was winning a scant 2percentt of the vote in public opinion polls.
Its annual report is such a scant document that even the financial contributions of the major newspapers are clothed in secrecy.
Some are predicting a scant 20 percent to 30 percent turnout, even for the heated United States Senate race to replace Senator Joseph Lieberman, the independent who is retiring, and in a Congressional race in the Western part of the state.
England's World Cup ended without even the scant consolation of a victory as they played out a tame draw with Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte.
And even that scant 20percentt is in question; there's a possibility it was executed by Leonardo's assistants, meticulously trained to mimic his style, and not by the old master himself.
