All told, there has been a lot of unnecessary basketball played, with a scant few instances where a lengthier series has changed the outcome.
There is, for instance, scant relevance of the Inland Regional Centre, a niche organisation in a town of little significance, to the wider political aims Farook and Malik may have been trying to expound.
Details are scant, or contradictory: for instance, the president proposes both to simplify the tax code and to make the existing tax cuts which complicate it permanent.
When a show has a workshop production, for instance, there are scant funds to pay designers, actors and technicians.
The Fighting Irish allowed opponents inside the 20 only 33 times, and in those instances, they yielded a scant eight touchdowns.
Though there are inevitable gaps (there's one scant reference to Billie Holiday, for instance, and her name is misspelled), most of the major figures are here, from politics, religion, scholarship, entertainment, sports.
The poor soil and scant rain of ancient Greece, for instance, meant that the terrain's ability to grow grain was limited, but grape vines and olive trees grew in abundance.
A literature review has been conducted, although in many instances the information available is scant.
Like modern athletes, Paige jumped from team to team, slipping out of contracts as necessary, showing scant loyalty to anything but the dollar (or peso, in some instances).
Last year, for instance, GM's profit per vehicle was a scant $350 providing a wafer-thin profit margin of 1-2%.
