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"barely off" is not a correct phrase in written English.
You can use the phrase "barely off the ground" to express the idea that something was just beginning or starting. For example, "The project was barely off the ground when it ran into some unexpected difficulties."
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"I'm barely off screen," she says.
Flushing teems with immigrants barely off the boat.
Deng lunged while startled police officers were barely off the back foot.
Shares in Fannie closed slightly higher, while Freddie was barely off.
Bauman leaned on the railings, hunched over, and swung his left foot ahead, barely off the ground.
Still, even though the initiative is barely off the ground, it is feeling the sting of the state's fiscal woes.
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We're looking roughly NW, and as you can see from this view, the castle towers over the town, which otherwise is not 200 m away, barely off-camera lower right.
(All right, maybe just barely. Off Broadway's no bargain either, these days).
I can barely pull off trainers.
It barely pays off without it.
"Anthem" barely got off the ground.
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