Sentence examples similar to scarcely productive from inspiring English sources

Even today it is scarcely expanding its productive base, although its recent groping toward Western capital and expertise may change that picture (click here to see story).

Nor is he convinced that a lack of credit is to blame, observing that capital was scarcely allocated towards highly productive sectors during the go-go years of the property bubble.

Expensive, irrational, destructive, counter-productive: this scarcely begins to describe our farming policies.

But like much of what the Coalition has done when it comes to "supply-side reform" – structural reform that genuinely increases the economy's productive potential – it's scarcely transformational.

More productive.

Very productive.

And they scarcely complained.

The Babe scarcely needed encouragement.

Now scarcely 10 per cent are.

Mr. Tanimoto scarcely answered.

But it scarcely matters.