Sentence examples for this week barely from inspiring English sources

But that doesn't explain why acts with a relatively long career – such as JLS, whose third LP was released this week – barely ever rise above mediocrity.

Not in Norway, where Jens Stoltenberg's centre-left coalition this week barely scraped back into office with a reduced majority.It secured 86 seats in the 169-seat Storting, one fewer than it won four years ago and just one more than the 85 required for a majority.

Whether Nicolas has turned a financial corner we cannot say, but he was certainly singing for his supper on a US chatshow this week, barely settling into his seat before telling David Letterman how his cat Lewis had just adored the bag of magic mushrooms he'd kept in his fridge back in the day.

Today barely 4,000 live on amid the ruins of war.

Two years ago, barely 1 percent of such loans were delinquent.

The Cumbria Community Foundation Appeal hit £1m today, barely five days after launching.

In 2010 barely 10m CDs were sold in the country down from 71m in 2001.

And that was on April 13, barely two weeks into the 2012 campaign.

Spotify, which has been in business since 2008, barely makes a profit.

Since 1951, barely more than 100 of these have been returned.

By 2007 barely 57% of container ships could fit the canal.