- had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open.
- he finished the marathon in just under 3 hours.
- he hardly ever goes fishing.
- he was scarce sixteen years old.
- I can hardly hear what she is saying.
- I only just caught the bus.
- it was barely 5 a.m..
- she barely seemed to notice him.
- the batter just missed being hit.
- the network has barely 5 percent of viewers.
- they scarcely ever used the emergency generator.
- we hardly knew them.
- we were so far back in the theater, we could barely read the subtitles.
- would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave.