Example sentences of "hardly [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your bum 's hardly bigger than a fist . |
| 2 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 3 | The piece of wood , hardly bigger than a large rhubarb leaf was lightly aground . |
| 4 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 5 | Most proteins , on which all the functions of Earthly life depend , are denatured — which essentially means ‘ cooked ’ — if their temperature is raised above about 45°C ; hardly hotter than a hot bath . |
| 6 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 7 | Another rarely used road , hardly wider than a car , it has the merit of going down , while the new road goes up . |
| 8 | It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van halfway along . |