My twin sister and I are thankful to be alive, for our combined weight at our 31-week birth hardly equaled five pounds.
The wood is hard and heavy, and the pattern of the grain and the colouring are hardly equaled by any other timber.
However, for all the fuss, Odd Blood charted only at No 64 in the UK (and 63 in the US) – which is hardly equalling the success of MGMT, or another band who've melded world music and indie, Vampire Weekend.
A Spool of Blue Thread (Chatto £18.99, pp357), about the secrets in the dysfunctional Whitshank family, hardly equals her finest (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, for example), but it's superbly accomplished, perceptive and funny, tugged forward by suspended revelations to its hurricane climax.
Thus, in spite of the fact that Maimon's erudition in Jewish literature was hardly equaled by any other modern Jewish thinker, Maimon's name is omitted in many, if not most, 20th century surveys of modern Jewish philosophy.
The results have hardly equaled the financial investment.
We had a fun day as we shopped and lunched first at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, then went on to the fantastic Roger's Gardens, a floral and gift shop fantasy that is hardly equaled.
But black schools were hardly equal.
Needless to say, identifying such problems hardly equals finding a plausible solution.
Which is hardly equal to a clear demonstration of American willfulness about Iran.
The Brown case, before the Warren court, was about overturning the "separate but equal" law of the land, which endorsed school segregation that was hardly equal for blacks.
