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This he could hardly understand.
"I could hardly understand anything the teacher said," he said.
"It wasn't just the glamour of it all because I think at 11, I could hardly understand what glamour was.
I could hardly understand what they said, and they certainly couldn't understand what I was talking about.
Maybe 10 or 20 years ago, Americans could hardly understand what Chinese people look like, what is their life, what kind of house or what kind of bicycle they have.
And as for the Spanish, they "could hardly understand the question", according to Gloria Laycock, a criminologist who was involved in the research.The other difference is that the British feel powerless to deal with anti-social behaviour themselves, and so expect the police to do it for them.
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I could hardly read it.
"He could hardly see.
I could hardly see.
I hardly understand how I could write as badly as I did three years ago.
"He collapsed in his chair, and could hardly be understood after that".
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