Sentence examples for scant preparation from inspiring English sources

"scant preparation" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase to describe an inadequate amount of planning or preparation for something. For example, "With scant preparation, I was not adequately prepared for my job interview."

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That may be scant preparation for the manifold problems that await him.

Vital matters such as the scant preparation made for the winter to come have not played out on screen.

Every time a substitute teacher takes over a class, he or she walks into unknown territory, often with scant preparation and no knowledge of the students.

If the scant preparation time does no one any favours, there is at least a sense that Gatland has a clear plan already.

Culpepper has covered five Olympics and 11 Super Bowls and was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize, but this was scant preparation for a season (2006/07) going home and away with Portsmouth.

If he does not play, Favre, coming off a five-month retirement, would have had only seven series of work since January, scant preparation for someone learning a new offensive language.

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Despite scant preparations and a shortage of weapons, Garibaldi's volunteers landed at Marsala on May 11 , 1860 and in less than three months conquered the entire island of Sicily.

Of course, like many scientists in this crossover field, Dr. Gardner has had scant formal preparation in biology (one molecular biology class taken as a college sophomore).

College students are given only scant training.

Two international conferences — in Kabul in the summer and Bonn in December — currently have scant agenda or preparation.

He argued that criticisms about the lack of defense counsel and scant time for preparation were motivated by defense lawyers' greed.

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