A scant nine years later - but who was counting?

A scant three years, even before the little ones grew old enough to take their places!

In a scant few million years it had run its course.

I remember driving my and other children to school a scant seven years ago and thinking nothing of it.

A scant four years later, we may take a less sanguine view.

Our star system, in comparison, has a scant twenty billion years before it dies.

That girl was going to be waiting for him tonight, a scant fourteen years of ripening heat.

It had a scant five years to go, by local time, and it wasn't nearly enough.

Death Row was founded a scant five years ago.

He's been in business a scant five years, and last season, he didn't even present a signature collection.