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"was barely allowed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that someone was very limited in what they were allowed to do. For example: "I was barely allowed to go outside, so I had to get creative with activities at home."
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Mr Mestrallet was foolish enough to allow the prime minister to announce the deal at a hastily arranged Saturday morning press conference at which he himself was barely allowed to speak.
Mona was barely allowed to leave the house.
I was barely allowed to leave the house in high school.
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Women did not qualify because they were barely allowed to own anything.
He was shot dead by political rivals later that year.What made the NLD's sweeping victory in the 2012 by-elections all the more extraordinary was that during military rule the party had been barely allowed to function.
Nothing was working except the artists' associations, the small businesses, the hiking clubs, the student groups, and the networks of friends that are barely allowed to exist in Burma.
At the other end of the spectrum, data sharing is barely allowed, with such draconian requirements and specifications that sharing is effectively impeded.
In contrast to what was to come, City were barely allowed any time to settle on the ball in the opening exchanges, with Ashley Young prominent and drawing heavy fouls from Micah Richards and James Milner.
Romanticising landscape is barely allowed.
Romanticizing landscape is barely allowed.
Legally, I'm barely allowed to say the word 'beautiful,' contractually obliged not to.
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