Sentence examples for scarcely settled from inspiring English sources

The area now known as Mato Grosso do Sul was scarcely settled before the mid-1900s.

He had scarcely settled down before the news of his advent was bruited….

He had scarcely settled down before the news of his advent was bruited about.

The first colonists had scarcely settled when, in 1636, the General Court appropriated £400 "towards a school or college".

Last week, Tony Abbott explained that the nation was "unsettled" or "scarcely settled" before the British arrived.

I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land.

Large particles settle rapidly, whereas nanoparticles scarcely settle.

Until oil and gas made it rich, beginning in the 1960s, this tiny, scalding, pancake-flat peninsula scarcely boasted a settled population, let alone a town of any size.

By 1830 the Old Northwest and Old Southwest areas scarcely populated before the war were settled with enough people to warrant the admission of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi as states into the Union.

Scarcely had troubles in Mauretania and in the Danubian regions been settled when Egypt declared itself independent under the usurper Achilleus.

The dust has scarcely had time to settle on the Health and Social Care Act, but already the air is thick with the language of "resistance".