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"barely makes a difference" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something has a small or negligible impact on a situation or outcome. Example: "I could add a little more salt to the soup, but it barely makes a difference in the overall taste."
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My caffeine consumption reached new and concerning heights, but it barely made a difference.
It barely made a difference up front, where Sunderland also had the services of Jermain Defoe.
So even a new and expanding metro in Delhi has barely made a difference in the seething city.
After all, if labor costs amount to only $1 per shirt, then doubling wages would barely make a difference in the final cost.
You can add flavorings if you like -- a celery stalk, an onion, a carrot, some peppercorns and so on -- but these will just barely make a difference.
Animal welfare campaigners would like to see them abolished too, saying they barely make a difference to the birds' ability to express their natural behaviour and live free from stress.
While the joint announcement was billed as a "showdown", the eventual fine, if indeed there is a fine, would barely make a difference to the company, whose revenues hit $50bn last year.
John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board and a former aircraft mechanic, said chicken wire would barely make a difference in a bird hit, and a heavier screen might break and be sucked into the engine as well; there it would be more of a problem than bird bodies, which are easier for the engine blades to chop up and pass through.
The Afrobarometer survey suggests in grim detail that not only has growth failed to make much of a dent in the experience of poverty for many, but that "the various anti-poverty interventions" of African governments of recent years have barely made a difference.
However, Environmental Defense said the new regulations will barely make a difference and do not go far enough.
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