Is Papa, who has kept scarcely anything for himself, to help us?...

I scarcely think so.

Tom could scarcely breathe.

I could scarcely breathe.

Foreign investment has scarcely increased.

I scarcely believed my eyes.

Berlusconi s ministers have scarcely behaved better.

Levin could scarcely remember his mother.

He can scarcely write his name.

Fifth, the world economy is scarcely thriving.

Today, the two countries are scarcely comparable.

Scarcely had I begun when I stopped.

She spoke scarcely a word of English.

He had scarcely eaten anything at dinner and had refused both tea and supper at Sviyazhsky's, but could not think of eating.

Dr. Khan's proliferation activitiesIt could scarcely be more blatant.

Scarcely had the rain stopped before a rainbow appeared.

But so low are American expectations that they scarcely care.

A scarcely perceptible smile moved the lawyer's drooping reddish moustache.

I had scarcely left home when it began to rain.

Scarcely had I started out when it began to rain.

But that can scarcely explain European nervousness and the protectionist reaction.

'They are united already,' she replied in a scarcely audible tone.

A less propitious start for a fledgling nation could scarcely be imagined.

When they met him they inquired with scarcely hidden pleasure about Anna's health.

'She has scarcely eaten anything all these days and has grown quite plain and here you come and upset her with your nonsense!' said she. 'Be off, be off, my dear!'

I can't do anything, begin anything, change anything!

It is a role for which decades of US supremacy have scarcely prepared them.

But Russia s pressure on Georgia has been even heavier and has scarcely been noticed.

He will draw that tooth for you so that you will scarcely feel it.'

Scarcely had they stopped before the dogs flew toward the marsh, racing one another.

Scarcely seven minutes after the sentence was read out, had the executioners done their work.

Their leaders can scarcely hold their tongues, so badly do they want a Kerry victory.

Four years later, that heavily prophesied race to the bottom is scarcely to be sniffed.

I don't know anything about anything.

(A more extensive military commitment is scarcely possible, given how overstretched US ground forces already are.)

A decade ago, when the last such gathering was held, the private sector was scarcely represented.

Europe's citizens scarcely grasp the issues at the heart of the European Constitutional Convention in Brussels.

Even the 20 cut in Japan's Official Development Assistance for China scarcely harmed their smooth economic ties.

Scarcely anyone bothers to consider the environmental costs to or rights of the country s poor and powerless.

Even the 20 cut in Japan's Official Development Assistance for China scarcely harmed their smooth economic ties.

Anything new?

In America, the Marxist cultural influence was very limited. Indeed, outside of universities, it scarcely ruffled American life.

The other, general reform'' agenda, has attracted scarcely any of his energy, and seems unlikely to do so.

This relationship was always more special for the British than for the Americans, who scarcely recognize its existence.

Indeed, the postcommunists now hold such an enormous advantage over all their competitors that a vote scarcely seems necessary.