The penetration is a scant meter below natural sea level.
The plane levelled off a scant hundred meters in the air and circled the field once.
It came to a stop a scant meter away from the edge of the cocoon.
Now he was only scant meters from the marauder ship.
Perhaps just over the rise of a nearby hill, scant meters ahead.
It was easiest to think of them as scant meters.
"There's a scant meter, and little enough of rhyme in it."
The flickering yellow lit their path for scant meters ahead.
Traveling a scant seven meters above the surface, with no room to really maneuver, made him anxious.
The octospider didn't stop until it was a scant five meters away.