Sentence examples for scant time before from inspiring English sources

With scant time before the election, a Senate panel moved the nomination along without actually holding a hearing.

Shield law advocates hope that, if Risen is held in contempt of court, it will at least give the Senate bill enough momentum to pass in the scant time before the current legislative session ends.

None of the governments or human rights organizations that had mounted legal challenges to his release pressed to bring an appeal to today's final decision in the scant time available before General Pinochet could leave Britain.

When it stopped, they said, passengers had scant time to escape before a blaze burned through the fuselage.

The budget books were released unusually late last night -- around 10 30 p.m. -- allowing scant time to study them before the vote, just after midnight today.

As a result England have once again been marooned in mid-table and have scant time for extensive revision before their big exam dates in France this September.

And that leaves scant time to run the collider before it has to shut down for the winter in early December to save money on electricity.

Chicago has scant time for the Pallant House exhibition.

League play, of course, allows scant time for navel-gazing.

But he also lamented the scant time that promising players have to develop their craft.

Mr. Suozzi (pronounced SWAH-zee) has scant time for summer vacation.