Sentence examples for scarcely bigger from inspiring English sources

Cell C22 is scarcely bigger than the narrow bed and table it contains.

In the end her 21% share of the vote was scarcely bigger than she managed in 2010.

He lived alone in a small room scarcely bigger than his bed, with a window and an easel.

Manufacturing is scarcely bigger than 20 years ago, and its share of the economy has fallen to 12%, lower than in most rich countries.

Though these vessels are typically about a thousand feet long, from such a distance they look scarcely bigger than a child's bath toy.

The túngara, a brown-backed, white-bellied creature scarcely bigger than the last joint of his thumb, made him abandon adaptationist thinking, he says.

Things pick up essentially where they left off -- Rudyard Funn and Eric Chapman, owner/undertakers of two rival funeral homes are competing for the dying denizens of the tiny Channel island village of Piffling Vale, which is scarcely big enough to support one of them.

But then again if you're bare-headed in space, the fact that no one can hear the noises you're making is scarcely your biggest problem.

It could be scarcely half as big as the current $10.5 trillion and therefore much easier to finance.

The Dexters come from Ireland, are scarcely taller than big dogs, & can stand practically any sort of cold weather, & can do on practically any sort of pasture, including underbrush.

They could scarcely have made a bigger mess of their investigation if they had tried.