The other, despite his parents' hopes, had scant reason to believe he could look forward to any but a narrow band of choices in life.

But then there was scant reason for it to be anything else.

But he offers scant reason for readers to accept a dismissal so at variance with general perception.

In truth, he'd given her scant reason to believe him otherwise.

Up to now, there has been scant reason to shift the spa from the travel pages into architecture.

Human beings have found a variety of ways to live, a fact most people have scant reason to notice.

And he had one scant reason for hope.

Watts's vision of the near future offers scant reason for hope.

A single market may sound like scant reason to visit Nowheresville.

She'd given him scant reason to think her amnesia wasn't genuine.