Sentence examples for had barely avoided from inspiring English sources

Then new economic data from London indicated that Britain had barely avoided slipping back into recession for the third time since 2008.

Tactical super-brain Lucien Favre led a side that had barely avoided relegation in 2010‑11 to fourth spot with meticulously planned counter-attacking football.

In Hartford, Laila Maidelis, a state employee from South Windsor, Conn., said she had barely avoided being struck by flying debris from a construction site across the street from the State House.

Even in pre-coup times, I had barely avoided being run over by an irate motorist who shouted, "Viva el Pato Donald!" I was saved by a comrade from being beaten up by an anti-Semitic mob and the modest bungalow where my wife and I lived with our young son Rodrigo had been the object of protests.

Two of the three have barely avoided closing, or worse, with cash infusions that buy time but fall far short of saving them.

The safari is a new business venture of Lou's old Army buddy Ramsey, with whom he drank and misbehaved, having barely avoided Korea almost twenty years ago.

People are also understandably concerned that last week's terror attacks may have pushed the nation into the recession it has barely avoided in recent months.

Now, the department has barely avoided the embarrassment of state troopers patrolling the town's streets because of a shortage of trained officers.

But about 5 p.m., as demand rose toward the winter peak hours, the California Independent System Operator said it had barely managed to avoid the cutoffs by buying power out of state and persuading many customers to cut their use.

Here is Michael as he sits beside his son, who has just barely avoided freezing to death: "Given her, he thought, given me, why didn't he die?

But England had barely begun.