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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hardly happen" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to emphasize the unlikelihood of something occurring. For example: "It would hardly happen that she wouldn't show up for the meeting."
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It would hardly happen now.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain! - In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, Hurricanes hardly happen.
It can hardly happen that both sides can point their fingers at each other while the chasm between them deepens.
But the improvements will hardly happen quickly enough to mollify unemployed workers facing reduced benefits and other sanctions under new rules that came into force on January 1st.
"Things like this hardly happen anywhere else but in New York," William Bolitho wrote in The New York World in 1930.
From fertility that is almost as high as one can get to below replacement level in 22 years: social change can hardly happen faster.
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That hardly happens any more".
That hadn't really hardly happened since 1999's brilliant Black on Both Sides.
While his success with Oscar Mayer was long-lasting, it hardly happened overnight, Ms. Bruun recalled in an interview on Thursday.
She added that: "At least in my bank enough people have been disciplined by now for unauthorised speaking to the press that it hardly happens any more".
At a blow, ballet has been brought right up in line with the front-rank experimenters in the other arts -- something which has hardly happened since the days of Diaghilev.
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