Sentence examples for scarcely higher from inspiring English sources

GDP is now scarcely higher than when the coalition government took office in May 2010.

Russia's score is scarcely higher than conflict-ridden states such as Iraq.

The Bedouin, wrote the official historian of the Sinai and Palestine campaign, Henry Gullett, were "scarcely higher in civilisation than the Australian black".

In two of these countries – the US and Italy – disposable incomes for millennials are scarcely higher in real terms than they were 30 years ago, while the rest of the population has experienced handsome gains.

The overflow pipe would no longer be protected by the Great Highway; instead, workers would build a low wall scarcely higher than the pipe itself, topped by a cobblestone berm that would slope down toward the surf.

A lot of that is down to Jon Øigarden's taut performance as Peter – as grim and compelling as Humphrey Bogart in Ray's In a Lonely Place (there's scarcely higher praise).

The rate is scarcely high enough to give central bankers palpitations.

But the borrowers are scarcely high-grade credits.

The stakes, they say, could scarcely be higher.

As Granieri and other physicians who treat dementia patients know, the stakes could scarcely be higher.

The threat was catastrophic and the stakes could scarcely be higher.