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barely B2

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adverbYou use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case .Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital.It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room.His voice was barely audible.She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old.If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second .The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open.Barely had she recovered from this trauma when Martin contracted whooping cough.

word	barely
definition	adverb You use barely to say that something is only just true or only just the case . Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital. It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room. His voice was barely audible. She was an elfin-like girl who looked barely 10 years old. If you say that one thing had barely happened when something else happened, you mean that the first event was followed immediately by the second . The Boeing 767 had barely taxied to a halt before its doors were flung open. Barely had she recovered from this trauma when Martin contracted whooping cough.
cefr-level	B2

Barely Adverb True Case Anastasia Remember Ride Hospital