Sentence examples for hardly expanded from inspiring English sources
The gross domestic product, after growing modestly in 2009 and 2010, has hardly expanded at all this year.
The subway network was built 100 years ago when much of New York was still farmland, and has hardly expanded in recent decades.
As a result, during a decade in which Brazil became a commodity-exporting powerhouse, its bulk-cargo terminals hardly expanded at all.Late and over budgetAt first Lula's government planned to upgrade Brazil's infrastructure without private help.
But dig below those numbers, and the outlook is more grim: Seen in relation to population growth, gross domestic product has hardly expanded at all this year, Wells Fargo economists said in a research note Tuesday.
Throwing money at a marginally qualified candidate with little chance of victory is hardly expanding the playing field.
It has several issues on the downside: it's laggy, tricky to learn, crashes too often and is hardly expanding its active users at all.
But any of them would be better than that threadbare plan House Republicans actually put forward, which would hardly expand coverage at all.
Umberto Eco's latest fiction, "The Prague Cemetery," is choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale.
In other words, it hardly expands on the five-year strategy outlined last July (after most people in education had started their holidays or were in demob mode), which offered specialist schools without sixth forms a fast-track route to acquiring them, with a presumption that their applications would be approved.
In a new forecast published alongside the budget, the Office of Budget Responsiblity, an independent watchdog that Osborne set up, said that the British economy would hardly expand at all this year, meaning that the Conservative-Liberal coalition will have presided over three successive years of recession or near-recession.
Uniquely, it hardly expands or contracts with changes in the temperature - a property that comes in very handy in precision instruments and clocks, whose workings can be interfered with by the "thermal expansion" of other lowlier metals.
