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• r  only a very short time before
  had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open
• r  almost not
  they scarcely ever used the emergency generator

• Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered.
• The earlier hardships are scarcely fathomable to today's TV-watching, french-fry chomping young.
• He represents a touchstone of authentic biblical scholarship that, in my opinion, has scarcely been paralleled since the days of the 16th century European Reformers.

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• hardly
• just
• scarce

News & Articles

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• Catch Elusive Mercury in June's Night Sky
  The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.
  June 13, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News
• Still time to catch sight of elusive Mercury
  By Joe RaoSpace.comThe planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.Yet Mercury is not ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Catch Elusive Mercury in June's Night Sky
  The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five bright planets to see. Called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the sun than Earth's, Mercury — scarcely more than half as far from the sun as Venus is — always appears from our vantage point to be in the same general direction as the sun and is usually lost in the sunlight.
  June 13, 2013 - SPACE.com via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Alexander Solzhenitsyn in USA Today
  Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA CNN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/21/guantanamo.justice/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG8X7-5Izo_XkLbXsAb61djBqS0Hw Jan 21, 2009 86362 115451 scarcely During all the years until 1961," Solzhenitsyn wrote in an autobiography written for the Nobel Foundation, "not only was I convinced that I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime, but, also, I scarcely dared allow any...
• Francis Maude in Times Online
  There can scarcely have been a graver breach of intelligence and security procedures than this. There can be few greater risks that the casual abandonment of top secret intelligence material on a train,said Mr Maude. "That al Qaeda do not...