Sentence examples for scant to make from inspiring English sources

An ecological link between fructose supply and obesity prevalence has been proposed (Bray et al., 2004); however, data on obesity are too scant to make a formal (Gross et al., 2004) or statistically significant link (Livesey, 2009), especially given that other confounders have also changed (Anderson, 2007).

And the author shows scant ability to make larger sense of what he learns.

There is scant incentive to make friends and form relationships, because so little of the game requires close coordination.

On my first visit, Bechdel and Taylor were trying to figure out how or if they could rearrange their scant furnishings to make room for an heirloom piano, a Steinway parlor grand, that Helen had offered to give her daughter.

He cannot count on a second term, should he even want one, and five years is scant time to make an impression on an institution as unbiddable as the World Bank.

And it is forcing Armenia, which depends on its strong diaspora communities to augment its otherwise scant geopolitical heft, to make delicate calculations about whether to encourage their exodus or slow it.

One of my concerns about Ouya is that lots of developers may just port across their existing Android games to see if the platform is worth their while, with scant attention to making them work well – rather than simply work without breaking – on a larger (TV) screen with a physical controller.

At other times I pour the sauce (made without the liquor) over a scant stack of pancakes to make a roomful of children quiet and happy.

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution.

Unable to speak the language, with scant resources, and trying to make sense of the strange new city she found herself in, she was stunned to discover she was entitled to a library card that would grant her books – for free.

Yet the movie's very straightforwardness was revolutionary: it proved that assiduous moviegoing could teach a young person with a scant budget and unheralded actors to make a smoothly professional movie.