Sentence examples for for a scant from inspiring English sources

Online giving accounts for a scant 7% of gifts, and just 1% arrive by text message.

At the time he had been buying for a scant six years but had already established a museum in Jakarta.

In October, The Tampa Tribune sold for a scant $9.5 million; Philadelphia's newspapers sold for $55 million in April 2012 after fetching $515 million in 2006.

Yet architect-designed homes account for a scant 5 to 7 percent of the nation's housing stock, architect-designed prefab ones even less.

For a scant few days, Jack Frost cast a spell and transformed a muddy fen into a place of beauty and play, novelty and joy.

Somehow, though, the notion that a group of women could check out of the domestic scene for a scant 48 hours seemed daring, revolutionary.

For now, a scant 0.5% of the billions of e-mails sent every day are encrypted.

Boston and New York are among the lone bright spots, while Honolulu is the nation's best with a vacancy rate of 5.8% for homes and a scant 0.5% for rentals.

And that "Midnight Cowboy" won an Oscar for best picture a scant four years after "The Sound of Music" did.

IBM's annual report for 1964 contains a scant half-dozen pages of financial information; its most recent one includes 40 pages of financial statements and accounting notes.

"Last night I had three big helpings of potatoes (mashed) and carrots for supper and a scant helping of meatloaf as well as 2 pieces of bread and butter, 2 apricots & a glass of milk".