"Such strictures will hardly apply to me, a stranger in town."

This, however, one must suppose, can hardly apply to the balloon when liberated.

The overall trend in art prices over the last 25 years has been up, but that hardly applies to individual items.

In other words, the term comprehensive hardly applies at the top end at all.

Pages eight and nine - well, fog signals hardly apply.

My experience with the habits of other painters could hardly apply to him.

He was a Magician, but his talent hardly applied to this sort of thing.

The business of their not threatening him hardly applied.

His Gift wasn't even of the same type as hers, and what training he had been given could hardly apply to her.

In a case of murder that can hardly apply, can it?