Sentence examples for just scrape through from inspiring English sources

One commentator who follows the issue closely likens Poland to "the fat boy in the middle of the class who keeps failing to hand in his homework on time".Even so, the political dynamics of enlargement suggest that the fat boy will just scrape through.

Another 15 lenders only just scraped through.

But she was just scraping through them, readying herself for the lines she had planned to scream.

But in the end King's weight of scoring was simply too much for the Russian, who had only just scraped through the preliminary round.

Though it just scraped through to this World Cup, Portugal has the pedigree built around Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the finest individuals in soccer, to shake even the powerful Brazilians.

Michel Hidalgo's side could hardly have begun their campaign in a more abject fashion, falling a goal behind after 27 seconds to an England side which had only just scraped through qualifying and were notoriously goal-shy.

Four of the largest US banks just scraped through the annual Federal Reserve financial checkup, underscoring the central bank's ongoing doubts about Wall Street's resilience more than six years after the financial crisis.

On July 26th Bankinter, a midsized Spanish commercial bank that just scraped through the tests, paid a record spread of 240 basis points to issue a mortgage-backed bond.The hope is that funding costs fall further as the results of the tests sink in.

Racers get a gold, silver or bronze medal at the end of each task depending on their performance, while cops get a distinction, merit or pass – so there's always room to come back and try for a better rating if you've only just scraped through.

The festival was set up 10 years ago by Comedy Store founder Don Ward, who said: "With a clean sweep, government cuts have wiped out funding for a lot of festivals … our funding has shrunk down over the years, but with the help of comics in the Manchester area we just scraped through last year.

"Obviously Wigan last season just scraped through in the end in the last game of the season.