Sentence examples for make up barely from inspiring English sources

(Immigrants make up barely 15% of Aarhus's population, although in some suburbs – including Brabrand, home to Grimhojsvej – the figure is two-thirds).

Though Jews in Germany make up barely 0.2% of the population, his pronouncements carry enormous authority.

The genetic pool remains narrow, though, and females make up barely one third of the population.

Scale is essential to the business, but the top 20 firms together make up barely 2% of the market.

There, blacks account for 6 in 10 residents, but those born in the United States make up barely half of all residents.

They make up barely more than a third of each house of the Legislature, and yet they have had outsize influence so far this year.

A generation or two ago, Professor Nassif said, converts made up barely 10percentt of Antiochian clergy.

But all the hybrid-electric vehicles sold in America last year made up barely 1% of the market, and may not get much above 3% before the end of the decade, says J.D. Power, a market research firm.

According to central bank the Riksbank, cash transactions made up barely 2% of the value of all payments made in Sweden last year – a figure some see dropping to 0.5% by 2020.

Until quite recently, the Latin middle classes made up barely one-third of the population, and some of their most prominent members — Che Guevara in Argentina, Fidel Castro in Cuba, Salvador Allende in Chile — made political careers out of the cause of eradicating inequality.

Yet Arabs were not alone in questioning the United Nations plan to allocate 56 percent of Palestine's territory to a minority consisting mostly of recent immigrants, which made up barely a third of the population and owned just 7 percent of the land.