Sentence examples for scant allowance from inspiring English sources
The shares are down in the dumps and I feel that the current valuation – just 98p – makes scant allowance for the recovery prospects of the outsourcing and private security group, which, admittedly, is still struggling.
And there is scant allowance made for the ordinary imposition of parental influence -- referred to disapprovingly in "The Drama" as "value selection" -- in which one sort of behavior (sharing toys, say) is encouraged and another (grabbing someone else's toy) is frowned upon and which of necessity favors the adult view over the young child's.
However, it was these traits that earned Gian Gastone the disdain of his father and of his elder brother, Grand Prince Ferdinando; Gian Gastone was thus granted a scant allowance by his father and therefore could not enjoy the "dissipations" of court.
Stitch, using a scant 1/4 " seam allowance.
If you read my Twitter bio, you'll notice that among the facts about myself I chose to include in my scant 140 character allowance, I use the phrase #spinabifida mom.
Description of the analysis is scant and no mention is made of any allowance for recidivism.
