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I could barely stand up without feeling like I was going to faint.
After one performance, I could barely drag myself from the stage to the taxicab.
And I'll lay a wager that barely anyone in the West believed them.
She is the only girl among boys, and is barely missing her female cousins and friends, who are inside the home instead of the school, because they are not allowed to get an education alongside boys.
In fact, in the last 10 years, the number of patients requiring an organ has doubled, while in the same time, the actual number of transplants has barely gone up.
I could barely get out of bed.
Johannesburg is known for its distinctive skyline, which I could barely see that morning.
But the images captured by Western media overwhelmingly depict Africans as basically primitive at best, or barely distinguishable from the African animals.
And you barely might be able to make out this hut here.
I could barely part my lips.
I just barely got the lights out in time for you to be able to see those gobs of light hitting the transect screen and then just glowing.
And the ones that are the most sought after are the ones that are only barely scratched off.
But when we direct it to the scene, the face becomes barely perceptible as we process the scene information.
And the remarkable thing was that 18 month-old babies, just barely walking and talking, would give her the crackers if she liked the crackers, but they would give her the broccoli if she liked the broccoli.
Well, if you go back to those psychologists and philosophers, a lot of them have said that babies and young children were barely conscious if they were conscious at all.
Second fact: the President's new budget for renewable energy is barely a billion dollars in total.
I still barely understand what most scientists are talking about.
My older brother Panaki Bose spent hours of his time explaining atoms to me when I barely understood basic algebra.
And she was barely breathing and she was blue.
And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.
Because I usually take the role of trying to explain to people how wonderful the new technologies that are coming along are going to be, and I thought that, since I was among friends here, I would tell you what I really think and try to look back and try to understand what is really going on here with these amazing jumps in technology that seem so fast that we can barely keep on top of it.
The humanitarian model has barely changed since the early 20th century.
And these are not characteristics of old media, and they're barely true of the media of today, but they will define the entertainment of the future.
And she'd squeeze me so tight I could barely breathe and then she'd let me go.
It would just barely be visible.
At 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface, sunlight is barely a glimmer.
We barely know them.
If you take one idea away from my talk today, let it be this: we have an incredibly important relationship with these marine microbes that have very large-scale consequences, and we're just barely beginning to understand what that relationship looks like and how it may be changing.
And the slide behind me barely scratches the surface of how widespread they are in animals.
For a week or more, I had barely eaten.
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