Palpitation of the heart is scarcely more than a solicitous noting of the fact that the heart is beating.
The expression is usually considered, however, to be scarcely more than a formula of words elaborated in order to explain certain of these exceptional cases that seem to need some special explanation.
Our forefathers considered the stomach the all-important organ of digestion and the intestines as scarcely more than a long tube to facilitate absorption and deal properly with waste materials.
But in the book of Smith this hypothesis was presented as scarcely more than a theory which the then known facts supported very imperfectly.
Its primary object is not to give men a representation of the physical world; for if that were its essential task, we could not understand how it has been able to survive, for, on this side, it is scarcely more than a fabric of errors.
If you would only remember that I am scarcely morethan a child you would not talk so foolishly.
In spite of his youth, his arguments in the matter were so forcible and in accord with old-time custom and law in England that the House of Commons reduced the subsidy to scarcely more than a quarter of the amount demanded.
As regards The Book of the Arts of Columbus' Century, scarcely more need be said in this introductory chapter than what has already been suggested, that this is the Renaissance period.
Thousands of people go up to the little village of scarcely more than a thousand inhabitants every ten years to see and hear the simple villagers tell the old, old story of the Passion and Death of Him that died on the Cross for us.
After hesitating a moment Amy lifted the child, and found it scarcely more than a little skeleton.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarcely more" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
