As a result, it was downgraded to a tropical depression, and Nora weakened to the extent that it barely met the criteria for being a tropical cyclone.
But it barely meets expenses, Mr. Ursino said, and nobody gets a salary.
Already, my "real" friends include people I've barely met.
When the bell rang at the end of the day, I would barely meet my Ammachi's eyes as I passed her on the corner of the school grounds where she waited, and raced as fast as I could to the first house at the top of our street.
The mother was a character we'd barely met and I'll guess that we're not going to see her again, or hear her mentioned.
"I'm confident that, however long I'm a manager, I'll never again face the challenges I've had this summer," says Ross, who barely met Djilobodji or Ndong.
Telling childhood anecdotes about their darling and expecting us to get tearful with them over the disappearance of some, I concede, quite agreeable twenty-something, but still a girl we'd barely met".
(The two barely met, but if Mr. Romney had known where Mr. Bush "was gonna go, I would have been on him like white on rice," he later told The Atlantic).
By contrast, McCain had barely met Palin.
In 2018, the region barely met the federal ozone standard after falling short in years past.
