Sentence examples for scarcely time from inspiring English sources

Lately, though, I've noticed that the theater doors open much later, with scarcely time to get to one's seat.

She's so busy, she says, there's scarcely time to sleep, largely because she's currently touring Pearl and Dave.

He says so much was going on earthquake, aftershocks, tsunami, three explosions, rising radiation readings that there was scarcely time to reflect on the dangers.

They raced together at the Castilla y León race in March in Spain, although there was scarcely time to determine the stronger rider.

There was scarcely time to squint at my reflection in the near-darkness and run cold fingers over the contours of a nose that over the course of my five and a half decades on earth had been broken, punched, cut, slapped, tweaked, swollen, nuzzled, kissed, blown and sunburned (boy, had it been sunburned), and, unbeknown to me, would be roughly half gone in a few hours.

At the same time, teachers are forever having to keep one eye on the clock to finish their course by the end of the semester, when there is scarcely time to teach the "official" viewpoint, much less the controversy surrounding each question.

However the very short lifespans of stars of more than a few solar masses would scarcely allow time for a planet to cool, let alone the time needed for a stable biosphere to develop.

EUROPE scarcely had time to digest the impact of last week's bloodshed in Paris before news arrived of new terrorist activity, this time in Belgium.

Increasingly, that is scarcely enough time.

It is scarcely the time for them to abandon ship.

He often drove himself to the office, where he worked until midnight, scarcely taking time off.