"barely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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