Sentence examples for running a scant from inspiring English sources

For the second year running a scant monsoon threatens their crops.

Shot in only six days and running a scant 67 minutes, the film has been praised as a prime example of how to tell a story economically and efficiently but with a cinematic style that transcends a limited budget.

Now, he is back and playing another fearsomely complicated character, an enraged Manhattanite called Edmond, whose name gives the play its title.David Mamet's work, running a scant 75 minutes, is short enough to fit into "Hamlet" three times over.

Definitely more, come to think of it, since the poem runs a scant 15 lines, while "Margaret" lasts two and a half hours and feels as if it were trimmed from something much longer.

The people in "4:44 Last Day on Earth" sometimes behave as if they had all the time in the world, and the film, which runs a scant 85 minutes, feels longer than that.

The March issue, all 6.5 ounces of it, runs a scant 100 pages, and that includes public-service ads for the Girl Scouts and the United Way, along with 6 pages of the magazine advertising itself.

[Page C6.] New Economy's Lighter Fare The March 2002 issue of Red Herring, all 6.5 ounces of it, runs a scant 100 pages, and that includes public-service ads, along with 6 pages of advertising for the magazine itself.

Pointless musical interludes are peppered throughout, perhaps to bulk out the flimsy narrative (though the film runs a scant 87 minutes, audiences are unlikely to be begging for more).

You have to have some affection for the near-great "Master of the Flying Guillotine," if only because this summer movie runs a scant 93 minutes in its newly restored original version.

Overall, investment is running at a scant 17% of GDP.President Lula rattled investors back in February when he complained that having independent agencies to regulate power, telecoms and other utilities amounted to an "outsourcing of the state".

The Zonbu runs at a scant 15 watts compared to standard computers that burn 175 watts.