Sentence examples for scanty notes from inspiring English sources

But emboldened by the suggestion, and fortified by some scanty notes Beethoven wrote, in which he apparently described the scope and character of the intended overture, Mr. Holsbergen conflated the one minute of "Macbeth" sketches and the sketches for the Largo, padded, no doubt, with his own filler, into the eight-minute work that Mr. Slatkin will conduct.

Data on complications are, she noted, somewhat scanty, but there is evidence that atherosclerotic complications begin in childhood (28).

My scant interest in the law was even scantier after the note by Ulises appeared.

Informal, set at the back of the house, the deck reflected more relaxed times and, as Ierley notes, allowed for "simpler and scantier attire" than the front porch.

Note usual appearance of the MJL (arrows), scanty mesenterial fluid, drainage still in place (thick arrows).

Official historian Robert Ross Smith noted that "This decision, based upon the scanty, incomplete information concerning Japanese strength and dispositions available to General Krueger at the time, was destined to precipitate a protracted and bitter fight".

"It's a good step forward," Qi says, although she notes that the EPA in the seeds is scanty.

Even within the straitjacket of this narrow methodology, he carefully observed the paradoxes of child poverty, noting that "the poverty period, with its accompaniments of under-feeding, scanty clothing, and overcrowding, lasts during the first ten or more years of their lives, a circumstance which cannot fail to arrest their mental and physical development" (Rowntree 1902 128n).

The crop was scanty.

Strikes have been scanty.

Capital was scanty.