Sentence examples for was barely sufficient from inspiring English sources

So they did, complaining that their pay was barely sufficient to stave off starvation.

While the rate of patients with available query data was barely sufficient at two hospitals (55 to 60%), patients from the other hospital showed a distinctly better rate (approx. 84%).

A lifetime is barely sufficient".

260 seats is barely sufficient for Labour or the Tories to form a credible minority government.

However, current software configuration management tools use a file-based data model that is barely sufficient to manipulate source code.

Data for filter feeders suggest that, in certain cases, continuous filtration at maximal rates may be barely sufficient to support normal growth and maintenance.

The profits of his father's photo- graphy business were barely sufficient to support two adults and four children, and the family lived in two rooms in bitter poverty.

"Allowances are barely sufficient to cover our costs as it is and any reduction in the overall quantum will, I think, deter able candidates from putting themselves forward as members of parliament in the first place," Luff wrote.

The report says they described conditions that matched the Victorian definition of sweated labour: "when earnings were barely sufficient to sustain existence, hours of labour were such as to make lives of workers periods of ceaseless toil; and conditions were injurious to the health of workers and dangerous to the public".

The Sentry has also undertaken an assessment of Sudan's anti-money laundering framework, and our report coming in the near future will show that the system is barely sufficient to meet international standards on paper, and far more concerning in practice.

Our job here is to help you maximise and get that out by whatever means you can.'" It was today reported that Peter Luff, a Tory MP who previously complained that the Commons allowances were "barely sufficient to cover costs", reportedly "kitted out" his country house and London flat at taxpayers' expense.