Sentence examples for barely short from inspiring English sources

Married couples made up 48.6 percent of households, compared with barely short of 50 percent as recently as 2010.

Many economists expect the Chinese government to announce Thursday that economic growth in the third quarter was barely short of the official target of 7.5 percent.

Most recently, some Russian military leaders have stopped barely short of accusing the United States or other NATO powers of sinking the Russian submarine Kursk and killing 118 Russian sailors, in a covered-up collision.

As it happened, the warm-up act having played its part and withdrawn, Tendulkar revealed just a few of his jewels, a fluent cover drive, a well controlled steer to third man, and two magnificent back-foot forcing shots through cover point off balls that were on a perfect line and barely short of a length.

As James Anderson took a breather and then Finn went off, Bresnan was rewarded for his efforts again when he found alarming extra bounce from barely short of a length to have Ajinkya Rahane edging a simple catch off the shoulder of the bat to gully.

Like De Silva, Taylor pulls balls that are barely short of a length and Sri Lanka soon discovered that after his understandably scratchy beginning.

Coming from a Fortune 500 company, I have seen no lack of barely short-of-illegal corruption, practices well known even at the organization's lowest echelons.

When I went back midweek, the line was barely shorter, and it was still raining.

But here it's the comic coexistence of the incorrigible reality (Nic Greenshields, barely shorter than the Empire State Building as the thuggish Big Jule, testifies proudly to "33 arrests and no convictions") and the ecstatic cod-revivalism of the song that epitomises the lovely mood of the show.

Barely two short, sharp songs into a clattering set, some lyrical fudging makes McKee question Kelly's memory.

That was probably news to the listeners who remembered his string of speeches a few months ago in which he accused Mr. Bush of "utter incompetence" on Iraq and barely stopped short of saying the president's pants were on fire.