Sentence examples for scant problem from inspiring English sources

Large numbers of objects posed scant problem.

She believes that the reformers, eager to do something quickly and decisively, are scanting the largest problem facing educators: the cyclical poverty that afflicts more than a fifth of the nation's children.

The persistence of Osler's "old man's friend" indicates that attention has been scant to the problems of the elderly.

The houses themselves were the problem, the light scant, the ceilings low, the rooms awkward, your parents always concluded as we drove back to our house.

This persistent and growing problem gets scant attention yet threatens the well-being and the very lives of children from coast to coast.

Douglas Oakervee said that the problem of scant capacity and creaking infrastructure was not just one affecting railways but the entire national transport system.

To help combat the problem of scant Bay Area mills to process the raw yarns, she is starting a nonprofit this fall to help buy equipment and lobby for the local textile industry.

Now, a firm is offering to slake his voracious appetite for new tomes without forcing him to relinquish old ones or, at least, their contents.1DollarScan is the American outpost of the Japanese firm Bookscan, founded to solve the problem of  scant space in Japan's poky urban dwellings and to prevent damage caused by bookshelf-toppling earthquakes.

But there is scant evidence that the problem is getting worse.

Yet data reflecting the problem are scant.

The problem gets scant attention from Congress, which has increased transit spending incrementally but has been unwilling to provide the levels that many transit managers say is needed. .