The phrase "scant ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where there is little evidence, support, or basis for a claim or argument.
Example: "The researcher found scant ground for the theory, leading to further investigation."
Alternatives: "little basis" or "limited foundation."
Third and last, there is scant ground for confidence that Mr Cameron's comprehensive strategy will go any significant way towards addressing the core problem of contagion.
What is clear, however, is that without Dr Williams' failure to include the findings in his report, Sally Clark's defence team would have had scant ground on which to mount her second, successful appeal.
Certainly, there was scant ground for such a systematic metaphysics as Jinsai affirmed in any of the ancient texts, especially the Analects and Mencius, that he otherwise identified with.In this respect, the common characterization of Jinsai as an "ancient learning" (kogaku) philosopher who simply rejected Neo-Confucianism is misleading.
Scant middle ground is available when the central leadership has so clearly indicated it will not accept full Western-style democracy within China's borders.
As a reformist Conservative pressing ahead with, among other things, a plan to legalize gay marriage, he has scant common ground with the "little Englanders" in his party, the core of about 100 members who make up a third of its representation in Parliament.
Yum... 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour generous pinch sea salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda scant pinch ground cinnamon 1/2 (one half) cup unsweetened shredded coconut 1/4 (one quarter) cup avocado or light olive oil 1/3 (one third) cup brown rice syrup 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Unsweetened almond milk.
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He initially relinquished this in the relatively scant enclosure of Ground Zeroes' Camp Omega, where replays and experimentation were encouraged by necessity of it being a single level, and The Phantom Pain is 200 times the stealth space Omega was.
PISTACHIO-SUN-DRIED CHERRY TART 1/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter 1/4 cup shortening 1/2 cup almond paste 3 eggs 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon zest 2 cups cake crumbs, pound or sponge cake Scant 1 cup ground pistachios 3/4 cup flour 1 (16-ounce) jar apricot jam 1 (8-ounce) jar sun-dried cherries.
Mr. Ritter, a 50-year-old auto mechanic and former motorcycle racer, was driving the Team Vesco 444 yellow-and-white streamliner, a 26-foot-long purpose-built speed machine that rips along a nine-mile course with a scant two inches of ground clearance.
Scant snow was on the ground when the resort opened in December 1962, so he hired Ute Indians to perform a snow dance.
