Buy one rustic cottage, and you could scarcely resist buying the whole village.
The demand scarcely surprises Ryan O'Sullivan, who bought rights to the brand with Gerrit Lansing and the Nesi Apparel Group two years ago.
He had signed the lease for a new apartment but could scarcely afford to buy furniture, or food, for his wife and two children.
For years the big champagne houses – Moët et Chandon, Lanson, Veuve Clicquot – have been scarcely able to buy enough grapes to keep up with world demand.
The $311 in weekly unemployment payments Ms. Coles was receiving left scarcely enough to buy food, let alone make the $3,100 monthly mortgage payment.
As for the staff who spend their lives working the land, the money they earn is scarcely enough to buy a small country cottage, let alone a patch of land of their own.
E-Trade started offering stock baskets in 2001 but stopped last year because scarcely anyone was buying.
The U.S.G.A. bought the Tea Room scarcely a year ago, and began to design space in its six stories for Iron Byron, the robot golfer, the films of Bobby Jones teaching the game to W. C. Fields, the club that Alan Shepard swung on the moon, and thousands of other items.
But the group's first big jump into British industry could scarcely be ignored: in 2000 Tata Tea bought Tetley, a household name.
Then Microsoft bought Great Plains for a number scarcely imagined in North Dakota.
