"scant space" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that there is a limited amount of something, in a literal or figurative sense. For example, you could say, "The room was cramped with very scant space to move around."
Despite being the story's catalysts, the grandparents receive relatively scant space compared with their offspring.
Ms. Hyland, with scant space to work with, has admirably made the museum's homage feel at once tender and substantial.
Although Mr. Wainwright is one of the first male singers on a big label to sing of gay themes, major gay publications give him scant space.
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.
Mr Buch gives scant space to the debates surrounding the symphony's position as the most famous piece of concert-hall music ever composed one of the book's failings along with its occasionally academic tone, even in Richard Miller's translation.But these are more than compensated for by the richness of the central argument.
He attended a government-subsidized Anglican high school on a scholarship and spent the last two school years sleeping every night on a cot in the school cafeteria because there was scant space to sleep or study at home as the third of nine children.
But it had scant closet space, and the bedroom needed plaster work.
CONS: The kitchen has scant counter space, and the bedroom is small.
This past fall, a heated debate ensued over the department's plan to put food trucks in Dolores Park, with some people opposing placement of trailers in the park's scant green space.
Construction has pinched the already scant gallery space around its most popular attraction, the huge model of New York City called the Panorama that Robert Moses built for the fair in 1964.
In 1996 he was getting scant shelf space (and a mere $1.8 million in revenues) for his Jones Soda, priced less than $1 a bottle.
