Sentence examples for barely improve from inspiring English sources

It would barely improve child outcomes overall.

The budget deficit will barely improve this year, edging down to £37 billion ($64 billion) from £39 billion in 2004-05 (worse than the £34 billion estimated in the budget).

A provocative new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," makes a strong case that for a large portion of the nation's seemingly successful undergraduates the years in college barely improve their skills in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing.

Increasing concrete cover and introducing lateral ties are shown to barely improve the post-fire behaviour of RPC columns.

While those changes have been hailed in the media as pro-worker and stronger than earlier law, in reality those amendments barely improve safeguards for impoverished garment-sector workers, and in some cases they undermine existing ones.

But the turbulent eastern part has barely improved.

The average score of third graders barely improved, by six-tenths of a point.

Spending by households slumped in the great recession of 2008-09, and has barely improved since.

In mergers and acquisitions, Deutsche Bank has barely improved its league-table position recently.

Survival rates, unlike those for many other cancers, have barely improved since the 1970s.

Women barely improved their representation in male professions; the number of female doctors actually declined.