'is barely conceivable' is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean that something is highly unlikely or difficult to imagine. For example, "It is barely conceivable that we will find a cure for cancer in the next decade."
(One of his biographers observed of "4D Time Lock" that "worse prose is barely conceivable").
On this evidence, it is barely conceivable that those in blue had hoisted the trophy only 16 months ago.
As a whole, the work is barely conceivable, and I'm still completely bowled over by it". Every audience for this piece can share Webern's feelings.
As a result of settlement expansion the area available for a Palestinian state has been steadily shrinking to the point where a two-state solution is barely conceivable.
From a distance, that idea seems obvious, but these folk were having to make their medium up as they went along, fuelled by the sort of rushed and sleepless inventiveness that is barely conceivable beyond American shores.
It is barely conceivable that Jews, after running their own vibrant polity for half a century and praying for a return to their ancestral homeland for two millennia, would quietly submit to Palestinian majority rule, however idealistic its proponents.
Twelve months ago, this would have been barely conceivable.
The energy required to push a spacecraft up to the speed needed to get to the star within 50 years was so great as to be barely conceivable.
Mr Gabriel told the Tagesspiegel newspaper: "With the rejection of the rules of the eurozone … negotiations about a [bailout] programme worth billions are barely conceivable".
A robot like Rethink Robotics's Baxter, with two arms and a remarkably easy, intuitive programming interface, would have been barely conceivable ten years ago.
Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's economic-affairs minister, said that negotiations over a new deal for the Greeks were "barely conceivable," adding, "Tsipras and his government are leading the Greek people on a path of bitter abandonment and hopelessness".
