Sentence examples for scant before from inspiring English sources

However, evidence for synaptic roles for mammalian DGKs has been scant before the study by Kim et al published in this issue of EMBO J. Kim et al report the identification of DGKζ as an interactor of the postsynaptic density-associated protein PSD95, which is a major scaffolding protein concentrated in dendritic spines.

But if the 1940s, why not a scant two decades before, when Iraq's straight-line frontiers were established by the victorious allies, so slicing this arbitrary entity into being from the cooling corpse of the Ottoman Empire's caliphate?

At the sight of the insurgents, the soldiers put up scant resistance before abandoning their base and leaving residents defenceless.

Neither, Roush says, is the tendency of many athletes to do scant research before hiring their new training or nutrition guru.

Since the disabilities treaty attracted scant attention before its ignominious defeat at the hands of the Republican minority on Tuesday, some background is in order.

Mr. Schröder's government sealed the pipeline deal, including a $1.46 billion German loan guarantee for the project, scant weeks before he lost the 2005 election.

Mayor [Abraham] Beame sampled the world's largest ice-cream sundae (seventy-two hundred and fifty pofnds of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry Sealtest), completed scant minutes before, when half a dozen white-jumpsuited technicians flung handfuls of maraschino cherries toward its twelve-foot summit.

So the sushi concerto may look serene, but it really involved Mr. Gelb racing around with a camera, trying to maximize a few scant seconds before a customer gobbled up the movie's beautiful scenery.

But a scant month before the picture's release on July 4, Hasbro decided to jettison Creative Artists and jump to the rival William Morris, which represents the director of "Transformers," Michael Bay.

Two years of talks with the FARC yielded scant progress before they ground to a halt last month; the rebels pulled out, demanding a government crackdown on paramilitary squads that oppose them.

With scant time before the election, a Senate panel moved the nomination along without actually holding a hearing.