She reveals that she is terminally ill, with scant weeks left to live.

They have been open only a few scant weeks (or even days) and now the hoards of summer people are upon them.

Unfortunately, the stock market crashed a scant six weeks after the report was issued, making government support for public broadcasting problematic.

He was a nonperson whose life had begun scant weeks before, when he?

A scant three weeks after entering this calm sea, however, the season changed; the good weather deserted them.

A scant two weeks ago, McEnroe was regarded as anything but a threat.

How dull to be designated by a number, Killashandra thought, having considered herself out of classrooms forever a scant few weeks before.

Even now when I meet students I taught a scant week ago they seem different - they're not my kids anymore.

A scant two weeks after our meeting, I received a telephone call from an estate lawyer who had handled matters involving my mother and father.

But many stay only for a scant few weeks before leaving again.