The economy hardly grew at all during that period, and many economists felt he should have lowered rates to give it a lift.

"If productivity is hardly growing at all, that means that people's standard of living is not rising either."

In addition, France's population was smaller than Germany's and was hardly growing.

The corn planted hardly grew, and what was grown was sold as animal feed.

Retail sales hardly grew at all in June.

It is one of the rare ethnic groups in Malaysia which hardly grows or increases in its population.

If they just stayed in the tribe they would hardly grow.

(Let them go dry in between - they're hardly growing.)

The largest law firms grew hardly at all last year, continuing layoffs and hiring freezes because there is not enough work.

For the first time in decades, the nation's largest law firms grew hardly at all last year, according to a survey to be published this month.