Frankel's popularity has reached such heights there were barely any vantage points left in the paddock before the exercise.
Indeed, the decline in humanitarian aid has reached the point for this year alone, barely 50 per cent of the requirements for priority needs have been met.
Barely 30 seconds have gone by and the thermostat is showing me the ceiling has reached 374°C.
The cost of the scandal is estimated to have reached £24bn, with barely a month going by without a high street bank announcing it is setting aside yet more cash to cover claims.
The Romanian sauropods and predators would barely have reached the knees of their American cousins.
It may have come and gone from year to year, might barely have reached your ankles, and would have tasted like acid mine drainage.
Out of more than 33,000 ancient Arabic manuscripts identified at the end of the 1990s in Mauritania barely a tenth have reached the museum.
(Why are there any at all?) Let us focus instead on what matters: the young celebrities queuing up to wheeze angelically into some kind of metaphorical public Breathalyser barely after they've reached the legal drinking age.
Exit from the beach was possible only via five heavily defended gullies, and by late morning barely 600 men had reached the higher ground.
Exit from the beach was possible only via five gullies, and by late morning barely six hundred men had reached the higher ground.
