Sentence examples for scarcely profitable from inspiring English sources

Outside shareholders of News Corp. have long dreamed of the company's ridding itself of scarcely profitable newspaper businesses to become a pure television and movie business.

They are barely profitable".

Their modestly profitable insurance businesses are scarcely a draw, and in fact they trade, respectively, at 31 and 40 times trailing earnings.

Now scarcely 10 per cent are.

Scarcely 2 yrs.

Mr. Tanimoto scarcely answered.

But it scarcely matters.

It scarcely mattered.

"Scarcely," his colleague replied.

Europe is scarcely better.

The situation scarcely improved.