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"barely a hundred" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means just under a hundred or slightly more than ninety-nine. It is often used to emphasize a small or insignificant number. Example: "After hours of searching, we found barely a hundred shells on the beach."
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We, meanwhile, are barely a hundred days into Donald Trump's Presidency.
Climate records have been kept for barely a hundred years in most places in Alaska.
At five feet two inches and barely a hundred pounds, she looked younger than her age.
At Badkas Chowk, a chaotic roundabout barely a hundred meters from the RSS office, two shopkeepers had no clue.
This year, however, was different: Nicolas Sarkozy, barely a hundred days in office, chose to unveil a foreign policy vision that is as activist as his domestic policy.
Persecution continued; in 2007 many Jews in the north had to hole up in a hotel to escape Islamists.Today barely a hundred Jews remain.
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— Charles Levinson (@levinsonc) 14 Sep 12 The sad thing is that those who attack embassies are like hundreds, barely a thousand.
The Calabrian Mafia is not hundreds of years old but barely a hundred and fifty; the story of the three knights is common to criminal groups around the world.
The temperature on the moon is a stunning minus two hundred and ninety degrees Fahrenheit, barely a hundred and seventy degrees above absolute zero.
From the wreckage I've rescued barely a thousand words in a pitiable state.
In more than half a century, he produced barely a thousand pieces.
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