The situation was hardly ideal, federal health officials acknowledged.

For one, results reflect the origin of data in clinical practice - hardly ideal from a research perspective.

The fit is hardly ideal, but it is better than nothing.

Even as signs of life returned to the pungent streets, the environment was hardly ideal for commerce.

The environment there was hardly ideal for research, said the official, who would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

Though conditions were hardly ideal, I didn't recognize him.

This was hardly ideal, but what really was the alternative?

And the "solution" arrived at is hardly ideal or even a pat hand.

The conditions were hardly ideal in which to make friends, but they seemed to have managed it.

This was hardly ideal from the instruction point of view.