Even the ingrained Hasidism of Singer's father was the product of a movement scarcely a hundred and fifty years old.
In a population of 1.3 billion, scarcely a million credit cards are in circulation, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, the management consulting concern.
Scarcely a hundred yards northwest, the low-freeboard canoes were shipping water, and Vaillancourt's bowman, Warren Elmer, whose wariness of Vaillancourt's judgment had amplified day by day, now turned and bellowed at him, "You fucking lunatic, head for the shore!" Fuck, fucker, fuckest; fuckest, fucker, fuck.
When Banyan characterised him as lacking even a scintilla of charisma, with a legislative record that left scarcely a mark, one of his own close advisers thought that rather charitable.
The book puts side by side pictures of the Führer and the pope at rallies, revelling in the adulation of the faithful: an irresistible pairing, though scarcely a fair one.
The fight attracted scarcely half a million viewers, on average, where a big fight typically draws more than twice as many.
DETROIT, June 9 In scarcely two minutes, two great plays by the Detroit Red Wings allowed them to capture Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals.
But soon the whole air became infected, and the water poisoned, and such a pestilence grew up that scarcely one out of a thousand was able to escape.
Despite our sore feet, and having covered untold millenniums over several miles, we're stupefied to learn that we've scarcely gone back a million years — an all but insignificant amount to geologists.
In fact, the entire front, which cost the lives of more than three million human beings, moved scarcely five miles in three years.
