Sentence examples for barely suffice from inspiring English sources

Several museum officials told me that this would barely suffice to maintain a static collection.

Tens of thousands of new pipelines have tapped into water supplies that barely suffice for the citizens already there.

Creatures so impossible for us to comprehend that our nightmares barely suffice to illustrate them.

Unemployment benefits, on the rare occasions when they were provided at all, barely sufficed to satisfy their basic food and clothing needs.At the other end of the spectrum, Chinese economists reckon the country has about 3m yuan millionaires and over 1,000 yuan trillionaires.

Overall, however, we believe that the present state of knowledge just barely suffices to make realistic quantitative predictions as to how effective a large-scale prophylactic antiviral drug program will be, let alone that it will be possible to make quantitative predictions when the dynamics of human choice are taken into account.

Though the Ravenswood was a relatively subdued 14.1percentt, it was still potent compared with California cabernets, which run around 13percentto to say nothing of wimpy French Bordeaux, which barely break 12. Suffice it to say that these zins are not prissy wines, nor are they aperitifs.

The tension, suffice it to say, barely lets up.

Suffice it to note that it has barely 250,000 citizens (cosseted by a million bustling expatriates), but sits on a tenth of the world's oil.

Now just saying Wigan suffices.

Suffice to say that a calm, usually patient and polite person was reduced to barely controlled tears of frustration.

Suffice it to say that this boy's survival skills extend to accepting the behavior of his meth-addicted parents, who at Christmastime bother — barely — to decorate a pile of twigs with tinfoil for their son.