Sentence examples for while a scant from inspiring English sources

Nearly 100 Asian-American organizations signed onto amicus briefs supporting the university, while a scant five Asian-American groups signed onto briefs supporting the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher.

And while a scant 32 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are at stake, compared with a combined 389 in Ohio and Texas, which will also vote on Tuesday, the candidates are lavishing attention on Little Rhody.

And while a scant 32 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are at stake, compared with a combined 389 in Ohio and Texas, which will also vote on Tuesday, the candidates are lavishing attention on Little Rhody......No presidential candidate stumped here before the 2004 primary, and the state's turnout that year -- barely 6percentt of registered voters -- was among the worst in the nation.

But I fear that this policy would not only further erode language education in our schools, while having a scant effect on the future high-tech workforce.

I've tried them all and, while some seem a scant improvement on their forefathers, some are revelatory.

Commentators now apparently view the glass as half full, while a few scant weeks ago it was, "What glass?" Stocks that we were told to sell in the summer are now coded hold.

By contrast, Japan, where G.D.P. fell 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter from the third, will probably manage growth of about 1 percent this year, Mr. Kenningham said, while the United States, which posted a scant 0.1 percent fourth-quarter gain, will probably grow about 2 percent.

Not a bad deal at all, especially considering the supposed price tags involved: employees will be able to snag a limited edition 16GB Droid RAZR for a scant $99, while a similarly tricked out MAXX will set them back $199.

Definitely more, come to think of it, since the poem runs a scant 15 lines, while "Margaret" lasts two and a half hours and feels as if it were trimmed from something much longer.

Research spending as a share of gross domestic product has actually declined since 1970, to a scant 0.47%, while spending in East Asia has quadrupled, to 1.27%, over the same period.

And while it varies by station, listener donations usually account for a scant 30% of a station's annual operating revenue.