Modern historians have had scant success with this material, which inspires little trust.

Critics complain that Congress has poured money into the program for 35 years with scant success.

With little to offer, she meets with scant success.

To them we cautiously opened the object of our visit, at first with very scant success.

And scientists have had scant success trying to understand the illnesses through a nongenetic approach.

The scant success of his film projects forced him to work as an art dealer from 1993 onwards.

But these voluntary alternatives have met with scant success.

Eventually, he went into business on his own, but met with scant success.

But this is immensely difficult in the conditions of communism, and that's why there's been scant success.

However, a few notable acts did enter the contest in the 1980s, with scant success.