"rather scant" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means "limited" or "inadequate in quantity or amount". You can use it when describing something that is not enough or is insufficient. Example: The evidence presented by the prosecution was rather scant, leaving many doubts in the minds of the jurors.
And it is not quite true that people don't come over, although the list of those let in is rather scant.
Except for a handful of absent-minded college professors and an occasional inventor, American literature had a rather scant record of American eccentricity.
Yet another video followed, showing a list of social improvements achieved by Tory leaders - some, it must be said, rather scant.
Although these recent findings have begun to turn the attention towards graphene, the number of publications dealing with the theoretical analysis of graphene-reinforced structural elements is rather scant.
It comments sardonically on Minimalism and its often baleful derivatives, among them anonymous geometric public art, and also conjures urban neglect, but it provides a rather scant notion of Mr. Ruby's considerable talent.
Their first penalty of the afternoon, awarded for Shkodran Mustafi's wild challenge on Cheikhou Kouyaté as the ball broke loose at a Townsend corner, had felt rather scant reward at the time.
The Wall Street Journal's July survey of business economists found, "The main reason U.S. companies are reluctant to step up hiring is scant demand, rather than uncertainty over government policies, according to a majority of economists".
In other environments, or perhaps in the same place but later in the year when food is scarce, it pays to be bold, to get out there and find those scant resources rather than cowering in a safe hidey-hole.
As a July Wall Street Journal survey of business economists found, "The main reason U.S. companies are reluctant to step up hiring is scant demand, rather than uncertainty over government policies".
This systematic review found the literature on MIS approaches to adult spinal deformity to be both scant and rather preliminary.
There is indeed scant empirical but rather mostly pragmatic evidence for this approach.
