Sentence examples for barely four decades from inspiring English sources
Schwab had the most impressive site of the three, a full block overlooking the Hudson River, but it survived barely four decades.
It's barely four decades since Chinese farms were decollectivized, for instance, and less than two decades since Brazilian inflation was running at more than 40 percent a month.
Anti-Arab gags dominated comedy programmes on state radio, while astonishment was expressed in parliament and in the newspapers at the cheek of the "little sheikhs" to the south, their confected country barely four decades old, daring to address the heirs of Cyrus the Great.
It tracks the brief evolution of daguerreotypy in France, where the medium lasted barely two decades.
The pope plainly sought to improve relations between the Vatican and Israel, which are barely two decades old.
After years of negotiations, the Falcons will get what they wanted: a new stadium to replace the Georgia Dome, which is barely two decades old.
BEIJING — This city's network of arterials, five ring roads that are fed by nine more freeways, is barely two decades old, but it is already sclerotic.
BARELY two decades old, the conservation easement already accounts for more than half of the entrusted land in New York State; 280,499 acres, according to the Land Trust Alliance.
These are admittedly ambitious goals for a region that is barely two decades into a difficult recovery from communism and tyranny.
