Sentence examples for scant amounts of from inspiring English sources

Some are sweeter than others, but all contain scant amounts of wormwood, the ingredient responsible for absinthe's supposed hallucinogenic effects.

But the oldest Black Sea layers that were analyzed were similar to those at the South Atlantic site: The mud at the sea bottom had scant amounts of organic matter and had been exposed to oxygen, which, in theory, should have made it tough to scrape up any preserved DNA.

"Puerto Rico cannot afford to continue jailing kids and destroying their future because they possess scant amounts of marijuana.

The Argentine territories, held back by their closed economies, the lack of any activity closely linked to foreign trade, and the scant amounts of labour and capital they consequently received, fell far behind those of other areas of the colonial world that participated in foreign trade.

Compared with RFLP, the advantage of SSR and SNP markers is that they can be revealed using high-throughput technologies with scant amounts of DNA.

Within white matter tracts of the cerebrum, internal capsule, cerebellum and brainstem, the myelin sheaths were multifocally swollen with variably sized, clear vacuoles that occasionally contain scant amounts of finely fibrillar, eosinophilic material (fragmented myelin) (Fig.  2a).

The dressing is a scant amount of olive oil and a generous squeeze of lemon juice.

That scant amount of time elapsed between the Red Sox slapping the Yankees on Friday night before unraveling on Saturday.

There were loads of layers – we counted about 15 – and a very scant amount of béchamel and meat ragu, but just the right amount.

There is little to distract the reader - no blogroll, no comments and only a scant amount of text identifying each item's name, components and provenance.

I prefer to keep things separate; perhaps I'm bad at sharing the scant amount of family that I do have, or fearful of giving someone a glimpse of the few people who really know me.