Sentence examples for has barely expanded from inspiring English sources

Holyfield would buckle it around a waist that has barely expanded since he won his first professional title, in 1990.

Their official statements have barely expanded beyond the simple, awful charges against the three already in custody: murder and robbery.

The Chinese statistics bureau released an index that showed factory activity had barely expanded in June, a month that was overshadowed by a credit crunch in the banking system.

Essential services such as safe water supplies, sanitation, and electricity are far from comprehensive in the rapidly growing urban areas and have barely expanded in rural areas since independence.

In all these respects, it is the opposite of Jerusalem, the ancient capital, which at the time "Only Yesterday" describes had barely expanded beyond the narrow, impoverished confines of the Old City.

Demand was high, capacity had barely expanded.

The rights have just expanded and expanded.

So even a new and expanding metro in Delhi has barely made a difference in the seething city.

While his budgets have proposed expanding Quick Draw and joining Powerball, the governor has barely mentioned them in public forums.

The company has barely a toehold — notably at San Francisco's AT&T Park — but sees room to expand.

It's got a lot to say about class — the narrator's family has "barely made the broad-jump from clay tobacco fields to red clay courts" — and just as much about the ways communities emotionally expand and contract.