The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.

And the ones that are the most sought after are the ones that are only barely scratched off.

Why did the Greek government concede to terms that not only controverted its own promises, but also closely resembled those that voters had overwhelmingly rejected in a popular referendum barely a week earlier?

When they work, they can make history, but after a while you can barely hear them.

Here he is walking down the aisle, but he can barely walk now, so it's impaired.

I could barely breathe.

I barely know her.

He barely passed the examination.

I can barely see you.

I was barely able to work.

He had barely enough to eat.

I can barely stand his behavior.

We just barely made the train.

But as we look, what's out there, we've barely scratched the surface on what is available on this planet.

But now the eurozone seems incapable of escaping near deflation, with little economic growth and prices barely moving upwards.

In fact, this negative verdict barely scratches the surface of France s predicament. The full picture emerges only after examining the motivations behind the government s inadequate response.

But barely six months into my new job, I met a woman who forced me to challenge all my assumptions.

The couple are barely 18 years old.

You can barely stand outside the tent.

We have barely enough bread for breakfast.

I barely escaped being hit by the truck.

I could barely get out of bed yesterday.

I could barely breathe. I was gasping for air.

People working in these canneries could barely stay there all day because of the smell, but you know what they came out saying?

Wouldn't it be nice if intestinal gas came embodied in visible clouds, so she could see that her really quite inoffensive pop had only barely grazed my face before it drifted away.

I put my flippers on. I could barely part my lips.

During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.

To be sure, most of the doomsayers have barely any knowledge of basic economics. But that has not stopped their views from informing the public debate.

And you barely might be able to make out this hut here.

By the time we jumped into that hall, she was barely moving.

Today it stands at barely half its level of 15 years ago.

Rangers managed just two first half shots on target but former Ibrox goalkeeper Liam Kelly was barely troubled by Lassana Coulibaly's header and a tame Ovie Ejaria strike.

Luke Massella I was really sick. I could barely get out of bed.

And I'll lay a wager that barely anyone in the West believed them.

I could barely stand up without feeling like I was going to faint.

It is barely tethered to any sort of physical reality in our minds.

Am I not better than this miserable wretch, who can barely express himself?

Am I not better than this miserable wretch, who can barely express himself?

They shall whisper among themselves You stayed on the earth barely ten days.

They shall whisper among themselves You stayed on the earth barely ten days.

Am I not better than this lowly man who can barely express himself?

Am I not better than this lowly man who can barely express himself?

Barely one third of the population of South Asia uses improved sanitation facilities.

And you can barely see it, but it's a controller at top cycles the water to fall just before and after you pass through the bottom of the arc.

After one performance, I could barely drag myself from the stage to the taxicab.