Sentence examples for barely long enough from inspiring English sources

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It's barely long enough to work up a thirst.

Why do cease-fire agreements sometimes last for years while others flounder barely long enough to be announced?

Cook for 10-12 minutes – just barely long enough for the salmon to start flaking.

1)The meat must be sautéed just barely long enough to lose its raw colour.

Soriano's glove is extremely small, barely long enough to cover the fingers on his left hand.

She'd discovered an unlocked closet behind a leaning blackboard, barely long enough to hold her body in its sleeping bag.

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Like the male, she's nippy – darting from one flower the next, barely staying long enough for me to take a photo, but just long enough for a male to fertilise her eggs, before they both move on a few seconds later as if nothing had happened.

Just long enough.

Some outside CEOs are barely around long enough to see their photographs hung in the headquarters lobby.

This can hardly be because of their deep-rooted social ties here: many of them are barely around long enough to have any.

Of the scores of scientists who show up to stroke their chins on these pages, only one is a woman, Lynn Margulis, and she barely lingers long enough to declare that she is not "a feminist" (whatever that means).

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