But the words "personal responsibility" hardly exist in her vocabulary.

Time is no exception, and at a certain level of reality it hardly exists.

Yet if this was typical of the general situation, it hardly existed at all.

Maybe in a city that hardly existed a decade ago.

And in fact, the music of statecraft hardly exists today.

At this moment, came the voice, some of these people hardly even exist.

Fifty years ago, the business of professional money management hardly existed.

The kind, the nasty realistic side of her mind said, that hardly ever existed.

We see that the idea of the public interest on which a different view might perhaps be taken, actually hardly exists.

For most people with serious long-term mental illness, family hardly exists.