Sentence examples for was a scant from inspiring English sources

The total was a scant 35 miles -- practically walking distance.

But before this calm tableau was a scant audience; double or triple their number had taken to the street outside.

Last year, for instance, GM's profit per vehicle was a scant $350 providing a wafer-thin profit margin of 1-2%.

Mingus Rude was a scant four months older than Dylan Ebdus, but those months hit the calendar such that Mingus was a grade ahead.

There was a scant social program; the vision was simply to wipe out the past and let the future take care of itself.

The gain in the first quarter was 2.6 percent compared with the first quarter of 2011, and the gain in the second quarter was a scant 0.9 percent compared with the second quarter of 2011.

Yet here I am, a scant hour after the event, conspicuously clean and unsullied by blood.

In spite of the VAT, government revenue is a scant 11% of GDP.

Tawi Tawi's westernmost tip is a scant 40 miles (64 km) east of Borneo.

The dressing is a scant amount of olive oil and a generous squeeze of lemon juice.

If this were a scant few years ago, I would have played Javier's part.