The entire peninsula, already remote in its own right, was isolated for a time, ensuring only scant detail of the disaster reached the outside world.

The brevity of the latest defector's reported comments, and the scant details of his back story, have raised eyebrows.

It would give only scant details of the work.

They gave scant details on the plan last week, though.

The scant details have fuelled speculation ever since.

Scant information survives about the show, where it came from or where it went.

They contained scant information as most of the key facts, including his mystery home address, had been redacted.

Feedback from the meeting suggests that those who got the nod were not impressed with the scant information provided.

Many complained they were offered no food or drink, were unable to book hotel rooms nearby and were given scant information about the misery.

On the basis of this scant information, and with the necessary deductive brain power, the puzzle can be solved.

So far he has shown scant interest in tackling them.

Sticklers show scant interest in the genuine rules of grammar and how they're learnt in great complexity when we are very young.

The businesses - thriving concerns with beautiful, ancient dining rooms, mouthwatering menus and regular custom - attracted scant interest and the owners mostly stared in silence at each other.

However marvellous the clothes he puts on the catwalk, they are of scant interest compared with the far more loaded question of what he will do next.

King's lease has been up for sale since the turn of the year, and there has been scant interest from prospective buyers.

Medical professionals are having to make difficult decisions, often with scant knowledge of our patients' wishes.

Scientists have a scant knowledge of these teeming creatures; they do not know if the microbes in your body are anything like the ones in mine.

A truck driver, he had scant knowledge of the sport, but became her self-appointed coach, determined that she would help the family out of poverty.

The above text captures scant knowledge of these vehicles and stands to be corrected by anyone holding more detailed and concise information.

According to the campaigners, the scant resources mean crooks can continue unchecked.

Scant resources and brutal circumstances meant that a spirit of creativity was required to survive.

Scant resources have been pushed to breaking point.

With 174 square miles of parkland to patrol and scant resources, he's adopted an intelligence-based approach.

Paying two performers to play one note each in two concerts may not be deemed the best use of scant resources in these challenging times.

But they do add 14 units to the scant supply of homes that those with few means might aspire to buy.

But with the dollar on the floor and clients in scant supply, it was hard to focus on much else.

There was low worker productivity because of scant supplies of agricultural machinery and other modern inputs.

A group of people, with no technical skills and scant supplies, are stranded on a planet and debate how to survive.

He decided to try to reach them to baptize them, despite his own weak health and scant supplies.

These are remarkable assertions that would find scant support in the literary world.

They offered scant support, and told him he was a distraction.

He set out to tame it with scant support from his own party.

They appeared superficially to have scant support.

He found scant support for this plan from his troops, who soon dwindled to only 600, but he carried on.