Sentence examples for barely fifty from inspiring English sources
By 1986, at the age of barely fifty, Saint Laurent had become the tragic Grand Old Man of French couture.
Her arms were so pitifully thin... Barely fifty years old, she looked like an old Jewish woman.
In "The Big Green Tent," as in her other novels, she often favors capsule descriptions over character development: "She was barely fifty, but to her daughter she appeared old and uninteresting.
In barely fifty years, eighty-seven of Brazil's two hundred and thirty known native groups died off, and the ones that remained lost as much as four-fifths of their population.
His height and energetic gestures, together with his officer's uniform and a gaudy sash given to him eight weeks earlier by Tecumseh after the Siege of Detroit, made him a conspicuous target for the unknown American who stepped forward from a thicket and fired at a range of barely fifty yards.
The highly decorative Sicilian Baroque period lasted barely fifty years, and perfectly reflected the social order of the island at a time when, nominally ruled by Spain, it was in fact governed by a wealthy and often extravagant aristocracy into whose hands ownership of the primarily agricultural economy was highly concentrated.
"Now it's barely fifty-two per cent.
Barely five kilometers to go.
Barely one of three adults could read.
