1.   John Gummer was announced, but Margaret Thatcher listened with scant patience to his supplications.

2.   But beyond the money, Stern said he had scant patience for people who do not understand his passion.

3.   He is an aggressive driver with scant patience for any obstacles to his first-place finish.

4.   Lynne, who lived in a Birmingham suburb, was a Southern gentleman with scant patience for wayward lawyers.

5.   Sills has scant patience for this attitude.

6.   But Okinawans are showing scant patience.