Sentence examples for rose a scant from inspiring English sources

That was first evident in the holiday-filled fiscal fourth quarter of 2015, when Nordstrom's same-store sales — a key retail gauge measuring sales of stores open at least one year — rose a scant 1.0% from a year earlier.

Revenue in the first quarter rose a scant 0.7percenttoto $1.43 billion, from $1.42 billion a year earlier.

Excluding energy, the so-called core index rose a scant 0.1percentthethe same as in May.

For the decade from the end of 2000 through the end of 2010, the developed market index rose a scant 5 percent.

Miscellany Advertising spending in the United States rose a scant 0.9 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period of 2011, according to a report issued on Sunday by Kantar Media, part of WPP.

Clorox said Tuesday that quarterly profit rose a scant 2.8% as rainy weather dampened sales of its Kingsford barbecue charcoal.

In January, Mr. Peeler predicted that ad spending in 2002 would rise a scant 1.5percentt from 2001.

But the figure fell short of corporate forecasts, and it did little to redeem what otherwise was a dismal fourth quarter, with output rising a scant 0.3percentt, a sharp decline from the 1.6 percent to 1.7percentt pace of the previous two quarters.

Operating income at the entertainment unit, which is dominated by Paramount, fell 32percentto to $205.4 million, in the first nine months of 2003, and revenue rose by a scant 2percentto to $2.8 billion.

In the EU, despite huge investments, passenger mileage on urban rail systems has risen by a scant 9% since 1970.

In the first three quarters of 2003 operating income at the entertainment unit of Viacom, which is dominated by Paramount, had fallen 32percentt, and revenue had risen by a scant 2percentto to $2.8 billion.