Sentence examples for applies to barely from inspiring English sources

While nearly half the girls surveyed for the campaign say they sing regularly in the school playground, this applies to barely a fifth of boys.

In the case of the Handler, the question is how the law applies to barely measurable amounts of silver — in particles thousands of times thinner than a human hair — that are intended to be strictly confined instead of spread into the environment.

Actually, "indie rock" barely applies to Of Montreal as anything but a description of the people who come to see it.

A whole bag of tricks is applied to a barely frozen dessert Mr. García calls a pineapple iceberg but which looks more like a tall slice of yellow meringue in a pool of passion-fruit and yogurt custard.

Such a short timeframe applies to teachers as well who barely find out their teaching schedule a few days prior to the school year with a proviso that it still may change.

But Freed's great strength as a writer — like Anne Tyler and Muriel Spark, to name but two — is that she realizes "normal" is a word that barely, if ever, applies to human beings in real life, let alone in serious fiction.

It's just that in past seasons the descriptions being applied to Karen would barely be noticed outside the affected areas.

A method for predicting the residual strength of damaged carbon-fibre composites using full-field strain data measured with digital image correlation has been developed and applied to laminates containing barely visible impact damage (BVID).

The same could apply to Rodriguez, who can barely run because of a strained left hamstring.

It's a thin veneer, a lightweight wafer applied to the surface, sometimes barely thicker than the polished metal it so often resembles.

Before you argue that those numbers are just recalcitrant Republicans corrupting the sample, chew on these two nuggets: First, 4 in 10 Democrats — yes, Democrats — said "honest" either barely applied to Clinton or didn't apply at all, and, second, 6 in 10 independents said the same about Clinton's "honesty" problem.