Sentence examples for got a scant from inspiring English sources

Those who bothered to go to the polls cast their ballots for almost anyone but the governing Labor Party candidates, who got a scant 26percentt of the vote in local elections.

Lonny Baxter, the burly power forward from Maryland's national championship team, has gotten a scant 16 minutes in Chicago.

This experiment is mentioned in Cherry-Garrard's Worst Journey in the World, and it gets a scant paragraph (without results) in the collected scientific works of the expedition.

The first as already mentioned is that he will get a relatively scant number of black votes.

In most of the country there is no other place to buy goods (and no other place to get a paycheck, scant and demeaning as it may be).

But soon after those phone calls, when parents got scant notice of a public hearing over a plan to replace a traditional Harlem public school with a charter school, Assemblyman Daniel J. O'Donnell fired off a letter to the chancellor calling such efforts "bogus".

The free time on most trips is too scant to really get a feel for a place, with the result that the harried visitor is likely to rack up plenty of frequent-flier miles but precious few memories.

Films that don't get a theatrical release, or that get only a scant one, often become readily available on-demand.

In September, 2011, when Lonergan's film got its (scant, even grudging) release in theatres, it was shown in a cut that ran two and a half hours.

The use of trade as a bridge got scant attention.

They get a 25% margin a $1.75 markup on a $7 set of prints, with scant investment of capital.