Sentence examples for had scarcely started from inspiring English sources

The first witness had scarcely started enumerating the Commission's recommendations when women in the audience began a series of interruptions.

Teacher Twila Smith had scarcely started a new school year when a 14-year-old freshman entered her world studies class and drew a gun on Tuesday.

The elevator had scarcely started its ascent when a woman near the rear started screaming, "Oh, my God, let me out of here!" The car was halted at the nearest floor, and out she shot.

They point out that, so far as most voters are concerned, the fight has scarcely started.

We've scarcely started to grasp the scale of the changes information technology will bring this century.

But rehearsals had scarcely begun when the sort of stories that freeze a producer's blood started creeping into newspapers.

But not if we wipe ourselves out before we have scarcely even gotten started.

But Booker's Newark education had scarcely begun.

Previews start on Saturday at the John Toomey Gallery in Oak Park, Ill., for a May 20 auction (in collaboration with the Treadway Gallery) of the contents of a Colorado home that had scarcely changed since Gustav Stickley's factory shipped the original furniture in 1902.

The opinion had scarcely any evidence behind it.

Last month the protests turned nasty when some of Uber's cars were smashed up.Despite his new pro-reform image, Mr Hollande's approach has scarcely been start-up-friendly.