Sentence examples for barely match from inspiring English sources

In total, the annual raises come to eighteen per cent over ten years, which means they will barely match overall consumer price inflation, and surely won't match the rise in the cost of living in New York.

Living in neighborhoods where a disproportionate number of crimes are committed, the poor and members of minority groups are more likely to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be picked up as suspects even if they barely match the description of a suspected criminal.

That would barely match the rate of population growth, but if those figures are right Nigeria will be doing better than most and should avoid the acute pain of previous commodity-price busts, as in the 1980s, when the government could not pay civil servants and political instability ensued.Nigeria is also in better shape to deal with a slowdown because of some decent macro-economic reforms.

But with the markets finally showing some pop, CD rates that barely match inflation are significantly less attractive.

But even those horrors, he says, barely match his encounters with the victims of modern-day slavery.

Gascoigne's performance was the more remarkable because he was barely match fit, having undergone a double hernia operation a month before the semi-final.

Laboratory rodents are barely matching today's clinical standards in RT research.

It says growth has been more like 3.1%, which barely matches the population increase.

AT LESS than 8,000MW, Peru's total electricity-generation capacity is modest, barely matching four modern nuclear power stations.

At just over £2 million it barely matched the low estimate and will be remembered in the future as one of the great coups of the year 2010.

Lichtenstein's 1972 Pop take on a traditional old master still life sold for $3.5 million, or $4 million with fees, just barely matching the estimate of $4 million to $6 million.