Sentence examples for barely improving from inspiring English sources

The rapid progress made by pupils of all abilities after Labour came to power in 1997 have ended and results are now barely improving.

Costs are rising (fuel, labor and maintenance), productivity is only barely improving, and capacity is growing faster than seats can be filled with paying passengers, thanks to record numbers of new planes being delivered by Boeing and Airbus Industrie.

–in ANOES (2010), calling back to and barely improving upon the original line.

This research comparing social determinants of health for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, suggests that such inequalities have persisted in some cases barely improving across 25 years, with Australia the worst performer overall despite concerted efforts by governments to close gaps in outcomes for Indigenous people in recent decades.

It would barely improve child outcomes overall.

But the turbulent eastern part has barely improved.

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.

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

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.