Sentence examples for scant training from inspiring English sources

College students are given only scant training.

The cramped clubhouse and scant training facilities would have been deemed unworthy by most self-respecting high-school teams.

They give injections, manage complicated drug regimens and use feeding tubes and dialysis equipment, usually with scant training and little backup.

Even these simple principles may be hard to implement, some educators say, because preschool instructors are often paid far less than public schoolteachers and receive scant training.

Most the Uzbeks were conscripts, men who received scant training at the start of brief and bewildering enlistments in which they spent a year in the combat zone followed by a discharge home.

Delia Smith herself had little professional experience and scant training in cooking when she was handed her first national column by the Daily Mirror, the deputy editor of which she went on to marry two years later.

Surprisingly, scant formal training on addiction and substance abuse is available in American medical schools.

Aside from scant agricultural training, weak infrastructure and diseases like black pod that threaten the trees, the West African cocoa farmers are hobbled by the size of their plots.

Donor interest is already scant, and training curricula and other efforts inadequate to prepare the next generation of students and practitioners.

In interviews conducted in mid-April, volunteers cleaning tsunami sludge from streets and shops in Ishinomaki with Peace Boat, one of the largest nonprofit organizations working in the area, said they received scant safety training and were instructed to bring their own personal protective equipment but were not regularly reminded to use it.

Re "Scant Time in Training Is Devoted to Sexuality" (Doctor and Patient, Nov. 15): Training for medical students in working respectfully and openly with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (L.G.B.T).