Sentence examples for of a scant from inspiring English sources

Now, he forecasts an increase next year of a scant 0.2percentt from this year.

Dealers cited the Fed's purchase on the open market of a scant $498 million of longer-dated Treasuries as a partial catalyst for the rebound.

Still, the average income grew by just 0.6percentt, far less than the rate of inflation, to $6,290, an increase of a scant $45 over 1997.

The first difference I experienced in crossing over from fiction to nonfiction was the publisher's willingness to draw up a contract on the basis of a scant proposal and tentative outline.

But, despite the name-dropping of Jay Z in the subtitle, there's a glaring dearth of hip-hop in these pages: the most influential genre of popular music to emerge in the last forty years is the main subject of a scant two essays in "Shake It Up" (and, since Sanneh's essay is primarily about the language of hip-hop, there's really only one piece here about hip-hop as music).

Over the past 15 years, Del Naja has become famous as one of a scant handful of rock stars who engage in political activism – Massive Attack have worked with the Stop the War coalition and visited refugee camps in Lebanon, while in 2011, Del Naja and Radiohead's Thom Yorke threw a party for Occupy protesters who had taken over a UBS bank building in London.

In typical Rettsounds fashion, we bring an Xmas delight that will only be of interest to a scant but cool as hell few. .

Roll the chilled dough between two sheets of parchment paper to a scant 1/4 inch (5mm) thick.

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

He said the submarine also added to a scant collection of Pearl Harbor artifacts.

The Veneno Roadster – of which a scant nine will roll out of Lamborghini's factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese – packs a 6.5-litre V12 engine producing 739 horsepower.