Sentence examples for scarcely a dozen from inspiring English sources
Such diffidence was unsurprising: scarcely a dozen Americans had attempted to do so up until that time.
At Sandown, Nathaniel had fought off a series of challenges, but now, just one was too much for him as Snow Fairy and Frankie Dettori quickened into a decisive lead in scarcely a dozen strides.
As the centuries are passed, the numbers of those who can prove a descent by the male line dwindle, until by the time of the Norman Conquest scarcely half a dozen pedigrees can be traced in the male line for either Saxon or Norman.
Drop into a McDonald's here, and you find Russians who scarcely existed a dozen years ago -- Russians with decent clothes and healthy teeth, Russians with jobs that give them spare time and cash for a family splurge, Russians with, polls show, a flicker of optimism.
It is impossible to dismiss the bloodthirsty, ritual nature of the event or the ease with which an all-pervasive anti-Semitism was manipulated by its cynical managers scarcely a half-dozen years after World War II.
— In his seven weeks as one of CNN's newest contributors, Erick Erickson has made scarcely more than a dozen appearances on the network.
The serial was stretched out over six issues by printing scarcely more than a dozen pages in each installment; it finally completed in issue 31.
Looking around us at the bustling restaurants, sun-dappled loggias, boutiques and focaccerias (and the long table 10 feet from ours, where a dozen priests were making merry), we could scarcely believe that disaster had so recently blighted this idyll.
But for every concept like integrated circuits there are a dozen technologies that generate big headlines and then fizzle with scarcely a follow-up in the press.
Ultimately, after court challenges and demonstrations, the plans of this Nazi-inspired group were changed, and scarcely two dozen acolytes gathered to demonstrate in Chicago.
