Sentence examples for scant sum from inspiring English sources
Her act, a kind of Elvira-meets-Joan Jett extravaganza, involves loud rock 'n' roll, a great deal of strutting and shimmering and a scant sum of clothing.
Alas, while funds have been pouring in and the campaign passed the £200,000 mark some time ago, there's scant chance of the campaign attracting a sum more than 10 times the global GDP by April 1, an ending date that seems significant for some reason.
That pretty much sums things up, but there is scant evidence that - even now - Brussels really gets it.
Even if 95% of the central grant is passported to schools – no more than an efficient local authority might devolve – that leaves a handsome sum in the hands of the trust, with scant detail about how the central funds are spent.
In sum, the government's ramped-up searches make scant sense except to stoke pointless fears and animosities, and then to reassure us with other Big Brother initiatives.
For surviving spouses, many with scant investment experience, the challenge will be to convert these lump-sum payments into a durable substitute for a lifetime of lost paychecks.
That rationale will be scant comfort to anyone who was planning to take a big lump-sum distribution from a plan this year and suddenly finds it out of reach.
America has permitted direct-to-consumer advertising for prescription drugs for a decade now, and the sums spent on it are ballooning (see chart); yet evidence is scant that anybody has been hurt by it.
