The phrase "are hardly like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that two things are very different or not similar at all.
Example: "The results of the experiment are hardly like what we expected; they were completely unexpected."
Alternatives: "are barely similar" or "are not at all like".
True, the quality and size of the studies was sometimes not as good as it might have been, but drug companies (and their lackeys in research councils) are hardly like to stump up to do them properly – that is reserved for the likes of Prozac, although we rarely hear of the suppressed studies of those kinds of drugs that prove inefficacy or actual harm.
Fine words - but the flaw in Gazidis's grand plan is that the world's leading clubs are hardly like to stop their own development for two years to give Arsenal a chance to catch up.
Politics aside, it's hardly like Britain regularly does well; we last came top over 20 years ago.
Loki says that Thor should not brag of his time in the east, as he once crouched in fear in the thumb of a glove (a story involving deception by the magic of Útgarða-Loki, recounted in the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning)—which, he comments, "was hardly like Thor".
But meshing transfers into an existing roster is hardly like snapping one's fingers and earning an N.C.A.A. tournament bid.
It's hardly like you'll be reaching for the tracksuit bottoms or gold leggings without our expert insight.
The three-and-a-half-hour trip is so seamless it is hardly like travelling abroad at all.London to Paris jaunts were seldom so uneventful.
I saw her some years ago in Marks & Spencer in Muswell Hill, but even before she hit north London, I suspect her upbringing was hardly like Kes.
Venice today is hardly like the community Mr. Schwarzenegger found when he first arrived, drawn by a promise of "nice buildings and hotels, kind of like a French Riviera type of look," he said.
It is fall — but not for me in any metaphorical sense, Because forty, while not technically all that young, is hardly like "the autumn of life" or anything; And also because Natalie Portman, the famous actress, Is in love with me.
It's hardly like they've opened up a Bentley garage where billionaires can eat caviar and glug Krug as they rev their overpriced engines and laugh at the locals.
