Sentence examples for just scraped through from inspiring English sources

Another 15 lenders only just scraped through.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"1GB would probably just scrape through for games in 2013," says Simon Barratt of FourDoorLemon.

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

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.

"I was just scraping through.

"I was just scraping through and I don't know how I won the game.