Sentence examples for even though barely from inspiring English sources

Even though barely a dozen of the hundreds of favelas have been reclaimed so far, the drug lords are clearly already feeling the pinch.

In some cases teachers won bonuses even though barely a third of their students performed at grade level on the state tests.

The new Tim Pawlenty has his sights set on placing "sixth or seventh" in the Republican straw poll in Ames, Iowa, on Aug. 13, even though barely that many candidates are competing in the early contest.

He has been summarily dispatched on leave after declaring that the debate about gender bias was "all over", even though barely one in 10 senior creative jobs in his industry are held by women, and fewer than one in three in all senior management.

Years ago, I remember the critic Paul Morley commenting on Winterbottom's film about Factory Records, 24-Hour Party People, saying that even though barely a scene in the film got the facts right, he couldn't imagine any depiction ever portraying the spirit of that time and place more accurately.

Even though I barely remember sex".

I needed Laura as the addressee of the novel even though she barely appears in it.

The crowd roared, even though it barely knew Laird's name during the roll call.

He graduated from West Essex Senior High School in 1976, even though he barely attended class.

The repayments are hugely noticeable even though they barely scrape the froth off what we owe.

He remembers how his Peruvian-born mother worked at a Revlon factory in Irvington even though she barely understood English.