Example sentences of "was hardly [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burton wrote , with typical flaring generosity ( like his fellow Welshman , Henry VII , he never forgot those who had been with him around the campfire when the crown was hardly even a dream in unreal England ) : |
| 2 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 3 | Jardine was hardly even a joke between them any more . |
| 4 | For male adolescents Lady Chatterley was hardly even a competitor with the modest pornographic magazines of the period . |
| 5 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |
| 6 | There was hardly ever a need to light a fire in the breakfast room because the great heat of the range came through . |
| 7 | Music-hall and vaudeville belonged not to ‘ humanity at large ’ but to its audience and that audience was hardly ever an exclusively working-class audience . |