Sentence examples for has barely needed from inspiring English sources

The route, which cuts around 4,000 nautical miles off the southern Suez route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has barely needed an ice-breaker since July as annual sea ice melted to a near record low extent.

The Russian has barely needed to change outfits in giving up only five games in four matches, although Agnieszka Radwanska, unbeaten in 13 matches this year and with two titles to her name, is playing at her absolute peak, which is rarefied territory.

She was poor and old and infirm, but she lived, and one of the many lessons of her story is that in order to survive that week in July she suddenly depended on services and supports that previously she had barely needed at all.

Some doctors have barely needed to keep up the pretence.

Some doctors have barely needed to keep up the pretense.

The conversation we need has barely begun.

Stephen C., an 11-year-old student with special needs, has barely received any instruction since late November because the school is not able to provide the necessary special education services, the suit says.

But the truth is that this country has barely begun to do the urgently needed work of rewiring the economy to support manufacturing and the jobs that it brings.

As The Economist went to press, it was not yet clear if Mr de Blasio had enough votes to avoid a run-off: he needs 40%, and has barely that.

The US is only 60% through raising the capital needed to repair its banks; Europe has barely started.

What they and everyone else need to know is that the learning has barely begun.