The ephemeral kingdom of Etruria lasted scarcely six years.

The oil she had conjured would scarcely last an hour in a trench, and she was not certain that she could conjure more at this point.

With Lysaer extending his influence into Tysan, the peace could scarcely last.

Bud was thrown, lasting scarcely two seconds on the hurricane deck of the squealing, sunfishing devil of a dun.

His batteries would last scarcely a month as it was.

So great, however, was the speed at which Gallia was receding from the sun, that this meteoric storm lasted scarcely more than four and twenty hours.

The seizure lasted scarcely a minute, for all the time I spent amongst the horrors of yesteryear.

But the 2012 victory lap lasted scarcely 24 hours, ending abruptly with the bombings on the London Underground and on one of the signature red double-decker buses.

The journey lasted scarcely a minute: when it ended they were standing at one end of a long, narrow chamber in the form of a half-cylinder.

Only a part of the Spirituals joined the new order, and the secession scarcely lasted beyond the reign of the hermit-pope.