Sentence examples for scarcely half from inspiring English sources

The numbers, though, are scarcely half the story.

A sad story, but scarcely half the picture.

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

After that, as we have seen throughout the 26 previous African Cups, including in South Africa, the tournament scarcely half fills the arenas.

The fight attracted scarcely half a million viewers, on average, where a big fight typically draws more than twice as many.

It was odd to look out toward the main-stem Mississippi, scarcely half a mile away, and see its contents spilling sideways, like cornmeal pouring from a hole in a burlap bag.

His parents had come from the village of Northover, scarcely one half mile (0.8 km) across the River Yeo to the north.

Haute Chaos is a term that might have been applied to the Met's exhibition by Charles Frederick Worth, an Englishman who came to fame in Paris scarcely a half century after "the great terror," and is considered the father of haute couture.

Scarcely a half-hour out of Amman, we began a steep climb over hills so barren we could see for miles in every direction.

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.

That's scarcely more than half the price its parts would fetch as standalone entities.