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Discover LudwigThe phrase "scant room" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English
You can use it to describe a situation where there is very little space or room available. For example: - Due to the large number of attendees, there was scant room left in the conference hall. - The tiny apartment offered scant room for the family of five. - Despite their attempts to downsize, the cluttered house still had scant room for movement.
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Most European countries have scant room for higher taxes.
"There is scant room for interpretation or parsing," he wrote.
Spatial transitions from compression to expansion leave scant room for museum fatigue.
Unlike frontal collisions, there is scant room in side-impact collisions to absorb blows.
But its public-debt stock is approaching 200% of GDP, so Japan has scant room for more fiscal stimulus.
Some DVD's turn happenings on the set into miniproductions, but "Translation" had scant room for a DVD crew.
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SENATOR OBAMA envisions legislation that leaves scant wiggle room on emissions cuts and exacts a price from the start for emissions permits.
State law precludes the use of legal holidays like New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday or Memorial Day to make up the difference, leaving scant wiggle room in a calendar that had few built-in extra days.
While details are scant, Boiler Room have announced that the venue will be located in London and open in early 2017.
There was scant wriggle-room on either side of the 500-metre-long red carpet snaking towards the Embassy theatre where the first part of a planned trilogy The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was screened for the first time to the public.
There is scant choice of rooms and a taverna may be open – or it may not.
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