Sentence examples for barely fast from inspiring English sources

Clay Murphy, less heralded than 800m team-mate Boris Berian and barely fast enough to get through the first round in Rio, took a surprise bronze medal.

Some were embarrassingly infertile, some produced animals that were barely fast enough to justify the diesel needed to transport them to the races.

Its conclusion that employment was growing fast but barely fast enough to absorb all the new job seekers is good news for city officials because a growing work force is usually a harbinger of a recovery in employment.

Still, hiring growth has been uninspiring in the last year, trudging along just barely fast enough to keep up with population growth but not nearly quickly enough to put a major dent in unemployment.

Speeds barely faster than walking at least help protect pumps and motors from harm.

And wages have risen barely faster than the rate of inflation.

The economy has grown barely faster than the population since the beginning of 2000.

Drought held growth to just 2.6% in the fiscal year ending in June, barely faster than the rate of population increase.

Never mind that the speed limit is 40 miles per hour, barely faster than in the parkway's early days.

Over the past decade Germany's economy has on average grown more slowly than America's and Britain's and barely faster than that of the euro zone as a whole.

At one point, a lorry slips by – except it's moving barely faster than I am, and so for about five minutes to be following me, its straining engine growling at me to move aside.