He then scarcely drew breath before telling us that two-thirds of prison inmates are there because they have drink or drug problems.
Italy were expected to thump the "Asian minnows" but the Koreans' defence held firm while the now legendary Park Doo Ik was on hand to score a scarcely believable winner just before half-time.
The area now known as Mato Grosso do Sul was scarcely settled before the mid-1900s.
Swann's pen debut drew several consignments Mr. Propas had scarcely seen before.
Last week, Tony Abbott explained that the nation was "unsettled" or "scarcely settled" before the British arrived.
Such uninhibited joy would have been scarcely credible before Zamora's introduction.
In fact, the agreement set off an explosion in the exports of many products Mexico had scarcely traded before.
Several threats have emerged — some of them scarcely discussed before passage — that together or alone could seriously endanger the new system.
Afghanistan civil society was scarcely functioning before the west intervened, and clearly ingrained corruption will not disappear overnight when western troops leave.
By 1830 the Old Northwest and Old Southwest areas scarcely populated before the war were settled with enough people to warrant the admission of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi as states into the Union.
The initial stimulus for a renewal of road building came not from the automobile, whose impact was scarcely felt before 1900, but from the bicycle, for whose benefit road improvement began in many countries during the 1880s and '90s.
