Sentence examples for hardly surpasses from inspiring English sources
Despite the care lavished on it — forty-five temperature-controlled minuthe immersionmersion circulator — the result hardly surpasses chicken soup with a soft-boiled egg in it.
The claim of Ibn Baṭṭūṭah to be "the traveler of Islam" is well founded: it is estimated that the extent of his wanderings was some 75,000 miles (120,000 km), a figure hardly surpassed by anyone before the age of steam power.
A detailed analysis reveals that some parts of the receiver aperture achieve an ARR above 90% at well-selected operating conditions, but average values hardly surpass 70%.
While 4 persons per square meter are considered as very crowded, [22] furthermore states that in reality the crowd density hardly ever surpasses 6 persons per square meter (which is considered as critically crowded).
How many people appreciate it?" Last year, Veterans Day came two months to the day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and parade crowds, while hardly monumental, surpassed those of previous years.
Long's theories about animal surgery garnered negative attention from the scientific community as well as the literary; biologist William Morton Wheeler wrote to Science in February 1904 that Long's story was "a series of anecdotes which for rank and impossible humanization of the animal can hardly be surpassed".
His conduct in Parliament had a mixture of prudence, firmness, and transcendent ability never before seen and hardly ever again surpassed.
Weber's intellectual breadth in the study of societies can hardly be overestimated; it surpassed that of his predecessors, mainly Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim.
They were scripts of a vision and excitement that has hardly been equalled and never surpassed, despite all the technical slickery the medium has achieved since.
Even in 2007, when 73% surpassed category averages, hardly anyone seems to have taken note.
