The phrase "scant results" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a small or insufficient amount of results. Example: Despite their extensive research, the scientists were disappointed to find only scant results in their experiments.
But linking these issues to trade made no obvious sense and produced scant results.
But both have already imposed some sanctions on Myanmar with scant results.
It is a philosophy that some say is not shared by Pacific governments or donors, who have preferred to opt for modern solutions – which have borne scant results.
The Obama administration has tried, with scant results, to persuade Fannie and Freddie to ease refinancing restrictions and participate in debt forgiveness programs.
When she returned to unemployment, she said, the government had tightened up, requiring weekly job applications, meetings with job counselors, and repetitive training that produced scant results.
After two years of attempts to produce a coherent counter-terrorism strategy that have produced scant results, European officials are galvanised by the Paris, attacks and are racing to correct perceived gaps.
Converse argued that the American electorate can be usefully divided into two groups: political élites, who are exceptionally well informed, follow politics closely, and adhere to a set of political beliefs so coherent as to constitute an ideology; and the mass public, whose specific knowledge of politics tends to be scant, resulting in a very loose and scattershot set of political beliefs.
The paper is concluded by presenting comparisons with the scant experimental results available in the literature.
Its practitioners are frequently artists whose Dadaist intent and scant means resulted in early careers devoted to performance or ad hoc installation art.
This experiment is mentioned in Cherry-Garrard's Worst Journey in the World, and it gets a scant paragraph (without results) in the collected scientific works of the expedition.
And in a field littered with good intentions, heavy doses of morality, and scant evidence of results, the Carrera program is a solid success: a three-year evaluation of its 12 sites in poor neighborhoods nationwide found participants had one-third fewer pregnancies, and births, than those in the control group.
