'scant insight' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where there is only a limited amount of understanding available. For example, "My research provided scant insight into the reasons behind the decline in sales."
General Clark announced his candidacy last week in Little Rock, Ark., offering scant insight on his positions on key issues.
The report offers scant insight into why certain decisions were made and by whom – questions that are likely to become important in coming legal battles.
But they give scant insight into how to lodge an effective complaint, so that you get a loan modification or locate a missing mortgage payment.
Although loosely conceived as a survey of images of New England from roughly 1850 to 1950, this hotchpotch of gilt-edged pictures offers scant insight into the subject, and no new research.
Just what the general manager might have told the manager concerning how the Mets need to win soon remained uncertain because each offered scant insight and claimed that sort of chat was normal.
The yellowing files give scant insight into those days' atrocities: the denunciations of parents by children; the humiliation of intellectuals; the millions of lives ruined by Red Guards ordered to remake society through upheaval.
Those obstacles might not have been wholly insurmountable, but Ms. Bair is poorly attuned to her subject and displays scant critical insight into the many tics, motifs and obsessions that run throughout Steinberg's work.
But they give scant attention to their important insight that social conditioning contributes to emotional conflicts and health.
This study augments the scant literature regarding scientist stereotypes in diverse college settings and provides insights for future efforts to address stereotype threat and science identity.
Earlier studies provide scant information on how patients in clinical practice perceive their treatment with antidepressants, thus insight and an understanding of the patients' perspectives on non-adherence and discontinuation are limited.
Moreover, we were able to provide a better insight on the risk factors for postdischarge SSI, for which information from the literature is scant.
