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Перевод: scant

[прилагательное]
скудный; недостаточный; ограниченный;
[глагол]
ограничивать; скупиться

Тезаурус:

1. In reply, Soviet generals grumbled that Kutuzov's troops on their return from the Napoleonic wars did not have to pay for forage as they crossed what is now Poland; the Poles, they said, were showing scant gratitude for their liberation in 1945.
2. The UAW has tried to recruit at Toyota, but with scant success.
3. This may be seen in his pollution of air, soil and ocean and in his scant disregard for the balance of nature or the needs of future generations and his tendency, without restraint, to use animal creation for his own ends.
4. Brown's message is turning into a zealot's redemption-seeking rant, with scant regard for facts or figures, for his own past record (" I Lobbied: It Was Bad" mocked one headline), for the need for compromise to make laws, least of all for financial contraints.
5. I have already mentioned my "empty bottle syndrome", and without a wall chart, I still have only scant knowledge of the lay-out of my interior.
6. Even if the Tories manage to confound the pollsters and return to power for another term, there is scant chance of significantly lower rates over the coming months.
7. This site will rarely be found in books on "industrial archaeology", which usually show scant interest in agriculture.
8. It was found that scant attention had been paid to raising the cultural level of party members.
9. The New Zealand experience suggests that there is no shortage of couples prepared to take an "open adoption with continuing contact" as far as infants are concerned (Dominick, 1988) but evidence about "special needs" children is still scant.
10. Doth not the good father in short time, either by his coughing or spitting or testiness become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law, with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on, or to the children, with taking up their room at the fire or at the table, or to the servants, while his slow eating doth scant their reversions?
11. In the new cities, where there was scant room for the living, there was even less room for the dead.
12. All too often, however, such fittings and materials are not only historically inappropriate - stained tropical hardwood from razed rainforests, horse brasses and rows of unwanted Book Club volumes are no substitute for an original, atmospheric interior - but also pay scant attention to the history and development of each individual building.
13. Despite appeals from studio bosses at Disney, Warner and Columbia for restraint, this summer's line-up shows scant sign of cost-control.