Sentence examples for worked barely from inspiring English sources

Sadly, though, this quelle surprise tactic worked barely more effectively than if he had sent on a line of cancan dancers.

The latest release of the labour force figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics brings to the fore that while the unemployment rate is falling, the employment sector is fragile, with full-time employment falling and hours worked barely growing at all.

She talks as she works, barely watching what she's doing, her hands moving automatically.

Below me, New Yorkers passed on their way to work, barely interested in what we were doing, except inasmuch as it impeded their routes.

Her paychecks vary -- $80 on a bad week, when she is scheduled to work barely 14 hours, $140 on a good one.

Their earnings, along with contributions from other members of their households who also began working, barely made up for the benefits they lost, as Moffitt of Johns Hopkins has written.

His knives, sharpened every hour as he works, barely poke through their wooden handles, allowing him to get close to the wood.

In the early 2000s, Melody Kush was just a Canadian girl living in Montreal trying to get by working barely over minimum wage.

It is a unique anti-snoring device that can work barely for any kind of snorer.

The number of hours worked has barely budged from its highs.

The bank bailouts worked and barely cost the government anything, but they are ferociously unpopular because the unjust got rewarded.