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Barely in sentence

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As a journalist in Havana, I watched the first 97 Nicaraguans arrive in March 1999, settling into dorms barely refurbished and helping their professors not only sweep out the classrooms but move in the desks and the chairs and the microscopes.
But we could barely rest before we were attacked again.
Many couldn't use cursive, could barely print.
Now, this kid could barely tie his shoelaces, but he knew you have to cover a cut so it doesn't become infected, and you have to care for your teeth by brushing twice a day.
When we first met, she was barely able to write her name.
I barely did it, because I found it boring and painful, and as a result, it took me another six weeks to get better.
She went each week to physical therapy, but just like me, she barely followed the home treatment, and it took her over five months to feel better.
Or a lady here in Brisbane, an Afghan lady who's a refugee, who could barely speak English when she came to Australia, her mentors helped her become a doctor and she took our Young Queenslander of the Year Award in 2008.
He could barely raise his arm, turn his neck.
She was a petite blonde dynamo, who barely reached five-foot-three.
And I could barely contain my excitement as I sat in that first design meeting designing a boat on which I was going to sail solo nonstop around the world.
You're alone on a boat you can barely stand up in, and you have to make every single decision on board.
When I went on my journey, I had barely ever held a golf club.
And he's barely able to sip some air before he slams his head back down.
A portly Miller, barely sober enough to sit on his horse, rambles on about the flighty wife of a crotchety old carpenter and the scholar she takes as her lover.
At the time, I'd barely heard about Calais, but it took about two or three seconds to figure out Calais is basically known for two things.
Physically, I had a severe hemorrhage during labor, and major tearing, so I could barely get up, sit or walk.
And on the eastern end of the island, where the reefs are intact and thriving, you could barely tell a tropical storm had passed.
How would we get someone to care about the world's coral reefs when it's an abstract thing they can barely understand?
The problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing, and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.
Fortunately, the Army had been working on their own parallel project, The Explorer, which was successfully launched in January 1958, but the U.S. had barely managed to catch up before they were surpassed again as Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space in April 1961.
After all, you could memorize 5,000 words of Russian and still be barely able to construct a sentence.
If your ideal cookie is barely browned, like a Northeasterner on a beach vacation, you could have set your oven to 310 degrees.
When it's far from shore, a tsunami can be barely detectable since it moves through the entire depth of the water.
Floaters may be only barely distinguishable most of the time.
In other words, if a 2,000 ton Syracusia displaced exactly 2,000 tons of water, it would just barely float.
To make matters worse, it's so dark out that you can barely see, and the old lantern you grabbed on your way only illuminates a tiny area.
In low Earth orbit, all sorts of structures, like bridges, highways and airports are visible, and the Great Wall is only barely discernible.
You're just two people shouting out barely related sentences in the same place.
The air is so rare in this place for me that I can barely breathe.
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