The phrase "barely likely" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that has a very small chance of happening or is not very probable. Example: "It is barely likely that I will win the lottery, but I still buy a ticket every week."
Barely likelier was fast-growing Asda, also strong in northern England and owned since 1999 by the American giant Wal-Mart.
Well, obviously they'd go with LadaRadaPradaYadaYada Finally, the barely less likely combination of easyJet and a luxury Swiss watchmaker: EasyTagHeuer (you have to say it quickly).
Standing on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln delivered his famous "house divided" anti-slavery speech in 1858, Obama opened what he described as an audacious campaign for president, one that barely seemed likely only six months ago -- and one that could make him the first African American ever to reach the White House.
The thing is, it barely seems likely trolling people on Twitter (or maybe the Guardian comments section) would scratch that particular Bateman itch, the one that led him to … well, you've either read the scene with the rat or you haven't.
The President barely mentioned the likely Republican nominee for governor, Andrew P. O'Rourke.
Is spending the same amount of money that you'd pay for a few pairs of shoes or two weeks' worth of meals at Chipotle for a device you will most likely barely use or interact with worth it?
"Haters Gonna Hate" appears on Graham's album The Sexy Ladies, which is barely known and likely to have received little to no airplay, making it very possible that Swift had never heard it.
Now, barely 50 percent of likely voters said they planned to vote for it; historically, tax initiatives tend to fail if they fall below 50 percent this close to an election.
At the same time, the appeals court found that a federal law prohibiting gun possession by people under restraining orders for domestic violence fit within such an exception, "though likely barely so".
Alternatively, for extremely open economies, sustainability could be defined as a ratio of debt to government revenue of 280%.Unfortunately, the original HIPC plan proved slow (only Uganda, Bolivia and Guyana have benefited so far) and stingy (in many cases the amount of debt service actually paid was likely barely to budge).
