1.   Food was in scant supply.

2.   For living-in apprentices food and comfort could be in scant supply.

3.   A strong economy appears to have produced very strong auto sales this month, and GM dealerships had scant supplies of popular models when the strikes began.

4.   All of which seem in scant supply on Pulau Tiga.

5.   Corn prices are half what they were this summer, when poor growing conditions led to scant supplies.

6.   Each of these phones will be competing for scant supplies of chips and displays with Palm Pilots, Game Boys and other handheld devices.

7.   Municipal bonds tracked Treasuries amid strong demand for scant supply of new securities, traders said.

8.   Refreshingly, if not always rewardingly, artists who work in less conventional ways are not in scant supply.

9.   Scant supplies of general anesthesia were hoarded for only the most serious cases, surgeons said.

10.   This is a result of a lack of interest from investors, and, in some states, a scant supply of municipal bonds.