Sentence examples for because they were hardly from inspiring English sources

College basketball ruled New York, and the Knicks played some of their games at the 69th Regiment Armory court, at Lexington Avenue and 25th Street, because they were hardly likely to fill the seats at the Garden.

I have got no doubt Diego Maradona and Pele were equally as good, and may well have been better, but the fact is because they were hardly ever on TV other than at World Cups, I never got to see them playing as much.

The utilities we found in our study were robust, because they were hardly influenced by patient or clinical characteristics such as age or respiratory complications.

Why?Electric vehicles are unlikely to fall too far out of favour in the short term, partly because they are hardly in favour.

It seems particularly unlikely because they are hardly political look-alikes: Mr. Bradley does not wince when he is called a liberal.

These kinds of issues are among the hardest sells for bankers because they are hardly the growth opportunities that get public investors going.

Call them "browns," because they are hardly green.

And not just the men – because they are hardly all to blame.

Another, more general issue, is detecting the formant peaks, either because they are hardly discernible, or because there may be double peaks.

If politics and government were a strictly (or perhaps even halfway) rational activity, then these are exactly the kind of qualities that any Prime Minister would like to see in all his frontbenchers – all the more so because, frankly, they are hardly in plentiful supply.

They are meaningful because they offer a snapshot of the state of play at the moment, but they are hardly predictive because many voters don't truly engage until the election draws nearer.