Sentence examples for that barely one from inspiring English sources

What's as scandalous as his responsibility for children's services is that barely one in seven eligible voters bothered with the ballot that elected him so he was clinging on to an electorally worthless office.

Rouse confirmed that barely one in four local areas had voluntarily pooled or aligned its health and social care budgets to facilitate the transfer of patients from hospital into the community.

The number of people employed in the Wharf has risen from 27,000 to well over 100,000 since 2003, but figures produced by the Office for National Statistics in 2013 showed that barely one in ten were local.

By having powerful, well-known, commanding figures running the cities, or by having weak figures that barely one in four of the electorate recognises?" "I speak as a former secretary of state for transport, dealing with Boris and Ken sitting there with big popular mandates enabled them to get significant decentralisation of powers for which I was responsible.

A YouGov poll last summer found that barely one voter in four (27%) wanted Trident replaced "with a new and upgraded system"; about the same number (25%) favoured maintaining the current Trident system, without upgrading or renewing it; but a rather larger proportion (36%) supported scrapping Trident in favour of spending the money on conventional defence forces.

Finally half of schools could improve outcomes by over 10 % with their current inputs in 2012 what represent an important decrease in results taking into account that barely one out of three schools belonged to this inefficient group in 2009.

"Similarly, USTelecom asserts in its Petition that barely one-quarter of U.S. households rely on traditional switched service from an incumbent LEC.

Independent observers reckoned that barely one-third of the electorate bothered to vote.

There have been public protests against it; and the latest poll, by the Washington Post and ABC News, found that barely one-third of respondents approved of Mr Bush's plans.

A parliamentary answer to Richard Burden, the Labour MP for Birmingham Northfield, showed that barely one-third of telephone calls made to HMRC contact centres were handled within five minutes in the second quarter of the last financial year, and only 40.3 per cent between April and June 2014.

The NHTSA said 70% of bicycle-related deaths nationally involve head injuries but that barely one-third of cyclists wear helmets.