scarce
     adj 1: not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"
     2: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand;
        "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" [ant: {abundant}]
     adv : by a small margin; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we
           hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had
           scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would
           have scarce arrived before she would have found some
           excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: {barely}, {hardly}, {just},
            {scarcely}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0