Sentence examples for may be scant from inspiring English sources

But that may be scant comfort for Mr Adams.

That may be scant preparation for the manifold problems that await him.

Strides in efficiency may be good for society, though there may be scant financial motivation for the doctors themselves.

That may be scant consolation for funds left on the wrong side of the High Court judgment.

It may be scant consolation now, but Melville's birthday will be celebrated on Saturday in an appropriate place, the South Street Seaport.

Medical ethicists have long worried that many of these trials are conducted in countries that federal auditors rarely visit and where research controls may be scant.

As important as the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement may be, it's scant comfort in the face of a societal acceptance of roadside stops where blood is being drawn and cavity searches are being carried out.

That price may be of scant comfort to people who owned the stock before the financial disaster.

Such assurances may be of scant comfort to vendors in 27 categories -- from air-conditioning repair to window washing -- whose performances have been reviewed for public scrutiny.

But facilities may be too scant for your comfort: virtually no storage, one shower (albeit a superb example in green marble with romantic broken column) for 10 rooms.

Unlike paintings, for which there may be only scant documentation and often no signature, buildings generally leave long paper trails of drawings, correspondence with clients, tax documents and so forth.