'barely possess' is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it when something is owned to a very small degree, or with almost no degree at all. For example, "We barely possess enough money to cover our monthly expenses."
Barely possessing the fight to make a fist, his disheartened survivors sedate themselves with a drug called Albertine (a just-for-the-sake-of-it nod to Proust).
Moses Sumney, a self-described "genre-agnostic" musician, said on Twitter that "much of the music on the country chart barely possesses associating qualities of the genre", and the only "difference is race".
So Ms. Barchowsky found herself the other morning standing before a class of eighth graders, talking about posture and grip, dictating sentences about "greedy green gremlins" and "reverent corruptible reprobates," and trying within the constraints of 25 minutes to teach these teenage pupils a skill most barely possessed -- the ability to write clearly and rapidly in script.
The film, a frenetic postmodern mishmash of horror-movie references, severed limbs and biffed heads, barely possesses a plot and contains more explosions than lines of dialogue, but it's slick and funny, and I like sitting beside my neph stuffing popcorn and lazily cackling.
Ideal hexagonal birnessite hardly contains Mn III), i.e. it has high Mn AOS but a large number of vacancy sites (16.7%), contrarily ideal triclinic birnessite barely possesses vacancy sites but does have a large amount of Mn III) (33.3%) [17, 23, 43].
These children can barely communicate, possess no skills and know nothing of the world outside.
Unfortunately, there was barely microorganism possessing the compound ability of lignocellulose decomposition and solvents production natively.
The long, noisy span of Mr. Rapp's play possesses barely a hint of truth about the many possible modes of interaction among members of the human race.
It's a lot to contain in the body of the story's narrator, a 16-year-old boy who is the "unwitting repository of folk memory from the margins, barely educated but possessed of extraordinary insights".
