"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

barely adverbio

verbo + barely
Kolokacji: 265
barely hear • barely make • barely escape • barely manage • barely notice • barely move • barely touch • barely begun • barely speak • ...
barely + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 60
barely visible • barely able • barely audible • barely perceptible • barely distinguishable • barely conscious • barely old • barely aware • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(9) literate, civil
Kolokacji: 2
1. barely literate = skąpo piśmienny barely literate
  • But down the back roads, away from the water, half the people are barely literate, and the average income is $9,000 a year.
  • Some are barely literate, or only slightly more educated than the people they serve.
  • In the next two days, a thousand people - a lot of them poor and barely literate - arrived with letters.
  • Compared to her, though, he was slow, and barely literate.
  • Not only that, but some of their staff seemed barely literate.
  • But the man is barely literate and doesn't understand science at all.
  • What makes these books all the more remarkable is that they were written by people who are barely literate.
  • Many adults are barely literate and speak little or no Spanish.
  • It doesn't matter whether we came from a highly educated family or a barely literate one.
  • He realized after a word or two that the writer was barely literate.
2. barely civil = skąpo cywilny barely civil
(12) dry, moist
Kolokacji: 2
(13) human, measurable, navigable
Kolokacji: 3

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