Sentence examples for has barely existed from inspiring English sources

The auction house insists it is quite simply patronising a worthy set of young creatives and shaping a market for them that has barely existed until now, but is steadily on the rise.

In the least developed regions of central and eastern India – where the state has barely existed except to permit its own agents or private contractors to extract the resources that lie beneath and on these lands – desperate and disenfranchised citizens have for several decades now turned to Maoist-led insurgency.

Some groups thrived where leftwing politics had barely existed before.

This created a demand which enabled publishers and providers of business information – including freelance entrepreneurs – to find a market that had barely existed.

For now the party would rather deal with angry underdogs than with an embittered bourgeoisie.The tenure of China's outgoing leaders coincided with the rapid emergence of a new property-owning class that had barely existed until the late 1990s.

Keeping in mind that most of these suggestions have barely existed beyond the drawing board, perhaps the best new public transport concept to be presented in recent years is the "cat bus", which appears as a character in the Japanese animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro.

It felt like Delphine had barely existed in the first place.

Prior to that, social services that address violence against children had barely existed.

Best of all, though, it ignited an interest in corners of the city I had barely known existed: islands and neighbourhoods that I set off to explore, once safely back down at ground level.

Not only did it define an area of cultural enquiry that had hitherto barely existed; it also established a context that no discussion of the new wave of late-1950s northern writers - John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin - could ignore.

Because of the slow entry into the digital realm of Viacom, Comedy Central's parent, and an almost crippling deal point in Mr. Stone's and Mr. Parker's contract, the lewd, rude, crudely animated and mordantly funny series — one that began with a viral video before the term even existed — has barely had a presence as an avalanche of user-generated entertainment hit the Web.