Sentence examples for it barely existed from inspiring English sources

It barely existed then".

For years, it barely existed as a memory.

As for local fashion design, it barely existed; most people shopped at brand-obsessed malls.

Luke Howard has worked nights editing this newspaper's website for 12 years, starting when it barely existed.

The corporate green-bond market, for example, which raises money from capital markets for companies to make environmentally friendly investments, is likely to hit $100 billion in 2015; in 2009 it barely existed.

Before I had time to thank him for what I regarded as a compliment, he refined his complaint to a point where it barely existed - or at least applied only to what he regarded as my less than generous attitude towards the chancellor of the exchequer.

It barely exists.

Indeed, it barely exists.

Indeed it barely exists in the modern golfer's bag.

It barely exists in this part of the country.

Like the markets for jobs and food, it barely exists.