Sentence examples for a bare beginning from inspiring English sources

Before she served and volleyed her way to 18 Grand Slam singles titles, before she supplied the contrast that turned her rivalry with Chris Evert into folklore, there was a bare beginning.

(There would be great affairs with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Wayne, Jean Gabin, Yul Brynner, just as she cultivated the invaluable support of the songwriter Friedrich Hollaender, the costumer Travis Banton, the accompanist Burt Bacharach and even Tynan. This list is a bare beginning only).

So far, we've only seen a bare beginning.

Mr. Mubarak's appointment on Saturday of a vice president, she said, was only the "bare beginning" of a process that must include a national dialogue with the protesters and "free, fair and credible" elections, scheduled for September.

I have the bare beginning of a new MS, and it has a different cadence, a different music, from anything I have previously done.

"This is only the bare beginning of reform.

Two years later, my stroke laid everything bare, beginning with my insufficient coping strategies.

But then you go to college and find out that's the bare beginning of the steps, the rules, the work, the anxious waiting for grades, the not getting this test right either.