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The phrase "are hardly able" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a lack of ability or difficulty in doing something.
Example: "After the long meeting, we are hardly able to focus on the next task."
Alternatives: "can barely" or "are barely able".
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Moscow and Washington are hardly able to conduct productive negotiations on any of the important questions that divide them.
Even at full strength, the Knicks are hardly able to allow themselves to look past an opponent.
This is the land of the marauding nymphomaniacs – hypersexed women who are hardly able to walk straight, never mind function as citizens.
BG Both clubs have such long casualty lists that they are hardly able to rest all their players even if they wanted to, so both should field strong sides.
Millions of dollars have been poured into this "AfPak mission", paying the salaries of self-styled experts who are hardly able to set foot outside the safety and comfort of their castles.
They are hardly able to form soils with the right engineering profile for use as foundation soils for road construction.
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I was hardly able to walk.
I was hardly able to get up for the next week.
Mr. Faber said that he was so worried he was hardly able to eat.
He began to be hardly able to look at his mother.
So much of his life has been spent in struggle that he's hardly able to comprehend this new existence.
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