Sentence examples for for barely two years from inspiring English sources

Suitor had been flying in the jetpack — technically, the late-'60s design was called a rocket belt — for barely two years.

In the case of both, and of Barack Obama, who had been a US Senator for barely two years when he declared for the presidency, people said it was "too early".

Death has loomed over pop almost from the minute that pop began: rock'n'roll had been a mainstream phenomenon for barely two years when Buddy Holly and Richie Valens died in February 1959.

Clegg comes over posh, but by instinct he is an outsider, dissing 'the fetid atmosphere of Westminster' and how he loves tramping the Dales near the Sheffield Hallam constituency he has represented for barely two years: 'Britain is much more liberal than the other parties recognise, and it could become much more liberal still.

Exposing disunity so dramatically challenges the state's narrative of political cohesion and strength at home and may, inadvertently, raise doubts in the minds of ordinary North Koreans about the stability of the new leadership, in power for barely two years.

The "Hollywood" sign had been up for barely five years when makers of "The Woman Disputed" (1928) sought to assuage Germany's concerns by changing the nationality of a villain from German to Russian.

President Trump has topped $100 million in fundraising for his 2020 reelection bid — an enormous haul for a president barely two years into his first term, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.

President Trump has topped $100 million in fundraising for his 2020 reelection bid - an enormous haul for a president barely two years into his first term, according to new figures reported by his 2020 campaign.

That would be quite an achievement for a fund that is barely two years old.

This was certainly not an easy feat for a startup which was barely two years old.

For all its bravura, the program survived barely two years, failing in 2012 as its funding dried up.