But the figure has barely moved since then.
Medium-sized firms continued to contract, though at a barely perceptible rate.
Man, you're such a chump at basketball, you cam barely make a basket.
Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie had barely been completed when the demolition of the old Louvre was begun.
The Hatoyama administration has barely begun to consider how to prolong the recovery, let alone pay down debt in the long run.
His performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.
His French was barely comprehensible.
Amazingly, I barely felt the cold at all.
Greece is barely out of the news, when, like vultures, they move on to devour Portugal.
A year later the journalist was savagely attacked, leaving him barely able to talk and brain-damaged.
Some 55% of a high turnout of voters said "yes" to a referendum question so convoluted as to be barely intelligible.
"The water was churning like I was in a washing-machine... the shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy," she told the Sun.
Every week, their faces barely flinch.
But it is barely functioning in the state anyway.
But she was also intrigued by the rhino stamp, barely a kiss of a postmark, and her address in caps.
Jon Favreau, who directed both Iron Man movies (and who plays Tony's driver and sidekick, Happy Hogan) barely conceals his impatience with the action sequences.
Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
In any case, mortgage rates are barely lower than they were a month ago.
Moreover, this is a preliminary estimate and past revisions have sometimes been quite large; barely perceptible growth of 0.1% in late 2009 was subsequently pushed up to 0.5%.
They barely have electricity.
But his barely disguised ambition to replace Nick Clegg as Lib Dem leader now looks fanciful.
Kim is the epitome of courtesy and graciousness as she handles several dozen interviews with local media over three days, giving her barely any time to explore the city.
Heck, we can barely even change the future.
Using X-ray techniques, a team "unpeeled" the layers of the famous painting to see how the Italian master achieved his barely perceptible graduation of tones from light to dark.
On some football field-sized trading floors you could barely see the far wall through the heat haze.
In most of the world the climate changes to date are barely perceptible or hard to pin on warming.
They determined that after the gene arose, more than 300 million years ago, it barely changed in most branches of vertebrate evolution to the present day.
My fingertips could barely touch the film canister.
He could barely operate his wrist watch.
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