Sentence examples for had hardly a from inspiring English sources

Though the bay had hardly a ripple, Tyonna Towler, 10, and Nalijah Peoples, 11, both of Hempstead, worried about tipping.

David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, and Gordon Brown, the Labour prime minister, had hardly a bad headline between them in their first few months at their respective helms.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Giuliani has said, "I do believe there's global warming," but in a speech on energy in the summer in Waterloo, Iowa, he had hardly a word about the environment.

In a session on the economy, the conference listened intently to a speech by Will Hutton, the chief executive of the Work Foundation and the author of "The State We're In", a seminal New Labour tract which had hardly a good word to say about the achievements of Thatcherism.

And perhaps we'll get one: because Ford's regime was fine in an era of plenty, when the country teemed with both-working-flat-out parents who had hardly a minute to call their own, and who desperately needed to mould their offspring to fit in with their busy working schedules.

Perhaps they were close at the time - in 1949, let's say, when planning a jaunt to the Côte d'Azur - but fell out later, as Baldwin did with the woman whose letter is quoted above (when I met her in 1989, she had hardly a decent word to say about him).

This inclusion of GDP at the destination level had hardly an effect on the coefficientsn.

Analysts have hardly a word to say.

People that happen to work there, they have hardly a chance to make a career on their own.

The bustling business district has hardly a vacant storefront.

Sulzberger had hardly done a good enough job to warrant such a title grab.