Sentence examples for with barely enough time from inspiring English sources

But with barely enough time for a quick drink of water, he had to put his catcher's gear back on.

They come in a rapid-fire staccato with barely enough time for the applause to fade between punch lines.

Over the course of three hours on a sweltering track, she sprinted from event to event, with barely enough time to catch her breath.

The best voice-over specialists can do four or five gigs a day, hopping from studio to studio with barely enough time to cash their cheques.

They wanted to mix local, fresh produce with cost effective everyday supplies but found themselves with barely enough time in the day.

Imagine trying to do serious politics under the relentless pressure of eternal democratic squabbling, with barely enough time to breathe, let alone to think straight.

That left an opening, with just barely enough time to get to Tokyo, shake some hands, gulp down a spicy tuna roll and climb back aboard Air Force One.

But come on -- conventional one-to-one husbands and wives, with kids, get barely enough time to talk, get intimate and bond.

Perhaps a better solution is one I adopted in another novel, "The Hammer of God," in which a potential killer asteroid is detected a year before it will collide with Earth, giving astronauts barely enough time to make a rendezvous and deflect it into a harmless orbit by mounting rocket thrusters on its surface.

Caught in heavy traffic, he arrived with 15 minutes to spare -- barely enough time to straighten his tie.

The speed with which he was shot, just two seconds after the officers pulled up, barely enough time to fully open the car door, underlines how police are often not protecting or serving the black community.