Sentence examples for hardly a thousand from inspiring English sources

My first library began its life in 1914 with a $5,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie to a little southern Appalachian town in North Carolina, with hardly a thousand inhabitants.

Their pellets are piercing the water and the blood... Next to me another pontoon is gliding, a projectile hits it directly, the pontoon capsizes, I look away... Of our division hardly a thousand men are left.

Hardly a one nation prospectus.

At the appointed time, a car arrives and takes us across the city to a house located hardly a hundred meters below a military tank position.

In theory, this is a fictional character loosely based on Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer, but hardly a million miles from Roth himself.

Direct imagery, such as that in Figure 4.6, shows >100 newborn stars throughout the area, each hardly a million years old and enveloped by disks of gas and dust seen in silhouette against the nebula's bright background.

Hardly a two week long extensive "season".

But a million invites is hardly a million users, and certainly not a million happy riders.

It's hardly a nine to five job when you can go home at the end of the today, away from your work colleagues?

It supports both the government in Iraq, an American ally if hardly a trusted one, and the one in Syria, supposedly an American foe.

The migration was hardly a small one: in proportion to population, the American Revolution resulted in five times more departures than its more violent French counterpart.