Sentence examples for scant days from inspiring English sources
There being scant days left before the first Tuesday in November, everything one does seems monumentally "pre-election".
And, as many asserted at the time, the vetting process of the vice-presidential candidate appears to have taken just a few scant days.
Abortion restrictions were voted down in the Senate, 54 - 45, scant days before Nelson bludgeoned them back in.
The famed promoter originally booked the Beatles for $6,500 for a twin bill at the normally staid Carnegie Hall in February 1964, only scant days after their legendary appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Localization of phospho-Src (pSrc) and phospho-Smad1 (pSmad1) in the nuclei was scant on day 0. On day 3, phosphorylation began in c-Src and Smad1 proteins.
In his scant 145 days in office, the new president has not remotely matched the Bush record in deficit creation.
Though Mr. Tonko said that he would make every effort to review the governor's bill, he added that it was "leaving us very scant few days".
For a scant few days, Jack Frost cast a spell and transformed a muddy fen into a place of beauty and play, novelty and joy.
If one accepts the calculation that the real action here begins with the Des Moines Register debate on Sunday, Jan . 4 that leaves the candidates a scant 14 days to do whatever they have to do before the voting.
In a scant four days this month, the surface of Greenland's ice sheet melted to an extent not witnessed in 30 years of satellite observations, NASA reported on Tuesday.
As Job says at one point: Man born of woman, scant of days and sated with trouble, like a blossom he comes forth and withers, and flees like a shadow — he will not stay.
