(adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(2) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(4) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(5) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
(6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(7) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(8) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(9) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
(10) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
(11) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(12) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
(13) But Sir Hayden Phillips's proposals are stalemated by Labour determination to cap spending and the Tory desire to cap Labour's unions funding while leaving their own flow of funds barely affected.
(14) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
(15) Average earnings are forecast to grow just 2.4% in 2017, meaning they will be barely rising in real terms.
(16) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
(17) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
(18) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
(19) In addition the bare central backbone showed transverse striations.
(20) In a third experiment, rats were unilaterally gonadectomized and blood samples were obtained at various intervals for 48 h. Following unilateral gonadectomy there was a significant transient increase in FSH levels in male or female MSG-treated rats as compared to their 0 h values; however, the absolute levels attained were barely equal to the basal concentrations observed in the saline-treated control rats.
Seldom
Definition:
(a.) Rare; infrequent.
Example Sentences:
(1) This scintigraphic localization of osteomyelitis seldom has been reported.
(2) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
(3) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(4) Sensitivity and specificity were enhanced when we linked multiple predictors, but this linkage was seldom successful because few patients had more than one positive predictor.
(5) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(6) This suggests that common food additives are seldom if ever of significance as precipitating factors in chronic urticaria or atopic dermatitis.
(7) The pronostic is related to the risk seldom degenerate.
(8) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(9) Older animals seldom have a single disease, but rather each one represents a unique combination of varying levels of loss of function at both the cellular and systems level.
(10) More specifically, disfigurement seldom was mentioned as a reason for not returning to work and for not participating in social activities with work mates, friends, relatives, and society in general.
(11) Partial scrotal loss is seldom a problem, as local flaps and closure of the defect with the remaining scrotal skin can usually be accomplished.
(12) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(13) It was demonstrated that administrative and ward work constituted the greater part of the activities studied, contact on the other hand being only seldom observed.
(14) This event is seldom; only 38 cases of true spontaneous rupture of the spleen in infectious mononucleosis could be found when the literature was reviewed.
(15) The neurotologic evaluation is negative and attempts to establish an etiology are seldom fruitful.
(16) Although a large population can be healthy for the economy, this seldom seems to be the case in developing countries because of the restricted availability of resources.
(17) The main advantage of this classification is that it can be used even in places where postmortems are seldom performed.
(18) Because cavernous malformations are often angiographically occult and do not have a characteristic appearance on computed tomography (CT), they are seldom recognized preoperatively and may be missed if the surgical specimen is not carefully reviewed.
(19) Although psychiatric symptoms are common among elderly individuals, these symptoms are seldom treated by psychotherapy.
(20) Hemangiopericytoma seldom originates from the lung.