Sentence examples for meet barely from inspiring English sources

But we are on track to meet barely half that target.

She has found part-time teaching work with a corporate relocation firm, her private tutoring is picking up again, and she is making ends meet — barely.

Terza, who lives with her adult daughter and her granddaughter, also talked about the struggles she faces to make ends meet – barely.

In the previous year, ITER had met barely half its goals.

At Guadalajara's Hospital Civil, the teeming public hospital where Dr. Garcia is chief of nephrology, the dialysis unit runs eight stations around the clock, and meets barely half the demand.

This is because while the Home Office says it has "substantially increased" the levels of funding to care for unaccompanied children – with an additional £60,000 available for each region, according to a spokesperson – council leaders insist that the funding on offer meets barely 50% of the cost of looking after a child who has arrived in the country alone.

And yet it was as if everyone I met barely even noticed they were living through one of the bloodiest battles of the Syrian Civil War.

We made ends meet, but barely.

A survey in late July of city residents who meet or barely exceed the definition of poor found that only about one-fifth of them thought the city's economy was improving, he said.

"There are some that never meet or barely ever meet".

If you are offered a drink by somebody you have only just met or barely know, stay at the bar as the drink is ordered and served.