"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Total hours worked dipped, suggesting that production and income were leveling out, and hourly pay barely inched up.
- Wages of private nonsupervisory workers - which account for some 80 percent of total employment - barely inched up to $15.65 an hour.
- Alcohol was served in 3.5 percent of homes, barely inching ahead of coffee, at 3.4 percent.
- The economy will barely inch along partly because corporations and individuals are still getting their financial houses in order.
- Scott advanced towards the center of the room, his shuffling feet barely inching across the dirt floor.
- Even those share prices - originally around $2,000 to $8,000 for an apartment - barely inched up in 30 years.
- Connecticut's population barely inched up last year, growing by about 7,000, or two-tenths of 1 percent, to 3.27 million.
- In a report issued last month, the Realtors' association said home prices in July barely inched up.
- The rate for April, released last week, barely inched up, from 4.2 percent to 4.3 percent.
- The Government's main forecasting gauge barely inched up in June, and its decline in May was slightly larger than had originally been estimated, the Commerce Department reported yesterday.
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