The phrase 'scarce amount' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an amount or quantity of something that is difficult to acquire or is not enough for the current need. For example, "The village had a scarce amount of food to last them the entire winter."
From the scarce amount she told me, I knew he was a punisher.
With a deft sense of composition, he arranged almost cinematic vignettes with a scarce amount of furniture chosen from a variety of periods: geometric brass sconces by the postwar Belgian designer Jules Wabbes, a square, patinated steel chair by the contemporary designer Franck Robichez and a creamy, undulating sofa by Pierre Paulin, originally manufactured in the late '60s.
Due to its large surface area, high electrical conductivity as well as mechanical and thermal stability, pristine graphene has the potential to be an excellent support for metal nanoparticles (NPs), but the scarce amount of intrinsic chemical groups/defects in its structure that could act as anchoring sites for the NPs hinders this type of use.
Chlorite (8%) and scarce amount of illite (3% Table 1; Fig. 6a, b) are recorded.
This scarce amount of respectful media coverage that features women athletes performing their sport in their sports' uniforms poses a significant barrier for to achieving the goal of true gender equity in sports.
During Hanukkah's eight days, we celebrate the miracle that the Temple's menorah burned for eight days even though the scarce amount of available oil should have lasted just one.
In plants fatty acids can be found in scarce amounts in free form, but generally they are combined in more complex molecules through ester bonds.
In the same layer, there were small and scarce amounts of PbO grains identified by Raman spectroscopy, but lead was not found by SEM EDS.
Moreover, as the wireless resource is naturally scarce, the amount used by each multicast service should be limited in order to maintain the stability and fairness of the network.
In some regions of northern China, where water is scarce, excessive amounts of groundwater are being directed to agriculture.
Originally conceived of as a national policy analysis tool, the general premise is that although resources are scarce, significant amounts of money can be moved from one patient group/service to another so as to increase benefits and/or reduce costs [ 23, 24].
