Sentence examples for scarcely the first from inspiring English sources

This was scarcely the first time that an attempt to control the Mississippi had failed.

They were scarcely the first to sacrifice their own lives in order to take others.

This is scarcely the first time the Bible has been adapted to comics pages, of course.

Shadid is scarcely the first person to use the rebuilding of a house as a way of portraying a local community.

But they should at least be aware that their employer is scarcely the first pop star who has neglected to look closely at the name inked on the cheque.

It is scarcely the first time that investors and rank-and-file employees have sustained bruising losses because of an accounting scandal, said Randolph P. Beatty, dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California.

The best-laid plans scarcely survive the first contact with the enemy.

He is scarcely in the first flush of youth, but at 61, is almost three decades younger than his rival, Mr Mugabe, and sprightlier than most of the Zanu-PF old guard.

Thailand seems stuck on a merry-go-round of political conflict, replaying chaotic episodes that were scarcely believable the first time round.

Things were scarcely better in the first few years after the war.

What Ray Davies muttered at the end of his White City Festival performance last year was scarcely audible; only the first couple of rows could have heard it.