She tried to smile as she saw the barely visible mark.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

After meeting Dracula's vampire brides, Harker barely escapes alive.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

It's a temptation their curious minds can barely resist: "If we don't use human DNA now someone else will."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

The sun had barely risen, but the line outside of the Apple store in Bethesda,Maryland already stretched around the block.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

Millions of people can barely find enough to keep themselves alive and unemployment is reported as high as 40 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

"He is barely arrived in the White House and I do not think people are rushing to judgment.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

But,this year,there is barely a trickle of buyers for the glittering gold bangles, necklaces and earrings on display.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

(Speaking) At present, the average price of gasoline in the United States is well below Leonhardt's barely-competitive threshold of about 75-cents per liter.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

You can barely find a job here, he says,No one will hire you because you are Palestinian.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

India's literacy rate is 64 percent. But studies have shown that a number of those counted as literate can barely read or write.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Thin rings show the tree is barely getting along, like during a drought year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"Then,there was barely enough food, just barely enough. It wasn't like now,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

He weighed barely 22 kilograms when he passed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

I suddenly realized I was in this absurd situation: I am an amateur baker, I hadn't been in a church in years, I barely speak French, and found myself going over to try to restore the lost 1300-year-old tradition of baking at the abbey."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16