Sentence examples for scarcely long from inspiring English sources

On the first, which was scarcely long enough for the sight, were to be seen the statues, pictures, and colossal images which were taken from the enemy, drawn upon two hundred and fifty chariots.

His health was now visibly failing; he never spoke in the House of Lords, and he accepted that he would live scarcely long enough to complete the reign of William III in his History.

A hike, a bike ride — he tried not to think that this crazy dream of family had shown its sweet face just long enough to torment him for the rest of his life, though scarcely long enough to sustain him through a meal.

She also tried marriage again in 1945, but her union with wealthy William Davey lasted just three months, "scarcely long enough to order new towels and stationary," as Miss Swanson commented.

The data only cover patients up to eight weeks, scarcely a long-term remission.

The crosspiece, scarcely seven miles long, was the former meander bend, which the people of the parish had long since named Old River.

Though scarcely eight inches long, it would satisfy six people.

They have scarcely begun the long march back from there.

Young pickerel start eating one another when they are scarcely two inches long.

It had been a long, scarcely bearble day, made all the longer & more nearly unbearable by the response that had to come & failed to come.

By John McPhee Young pickerel — "most ravenous of fishes," according to Thoreau — start eating each other when they are scarcely two inches long.