The phrase 'adequate enough' is correct and usable in written English. It is used to describe something that is not necessarily great, but is satisfactory for a certain purpose. For example: The makeshift shelter I built was adequate enough to keep me out of the rain.
Sure "first began" and "sum total" are best avoided, and "adequate enough" is plainly awful.
No. Al-Azhar's response to this conference was not nearly adequate enough for me".
But, usually this method may not be adequate enough to indicate satisfactory results.
Help did not arrive in adequate enough numbers or in nearly enough time.
Working on individual and isolated material components is no longer adequate enough to solve sophisticated engineering problems in industry.
To be fair, he's now delivering an adequate enough address, full of noble words in both English and French.
Using some classical schemes to solve the inviscid flow in Lagrangian coordinate may be not adequate enough to correctly describe flow motion in the discretized space.
Farah had been targeting a British record but victory proved an adequate enough compensation as he sped away from the Kenyan Augustine Choge to win in 7min 39.55sec.
Recent studies indicate that a classical model of additive noise is not adequate enough for images formed by modern multichannel sensors operating in visible and infrared bands.
The review has been examining if trusts have already taken action adequate enough to improve care quality or if they require extra support.
They may perceive themselves as not being good enough — or competent enough or adequate enough — and experience accompanying feelings of shame, anxiety or depression.
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