He caught up to her a scant few feet from the door.

Finally the door opened a scant foot, and a pale face looked out.

Light probed a scant few feet into it: the rest was black.

Even a stone falls a scant three feet in the first second.

He stopped a scant two feet from me and looked me over.

It was a scant three feet away, and he decided to risk it.

They had missed the whale's back by a scant three feet!

Then the man sprang to his full height, which was a scant five feet.

He stood a scant five feet four inches with boots on.

He could have hovered there, scant feet from the hull, for hours.