Example sentences of "hardly a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 2 | Hardly a rally was over two strokes and what was more disappointing was that it followed the brilliant final at Brighton . |
| 3 | In conversation , hardly a word is left unpunned or reference untapped . |
| 4 | Hardly a word was exchanged after the first greeting . |
| 5 | They were five people in one small room , and hardly a word was said between them until Gus Hambro had a large brandy under his belt , and was visibly returning into circulation . |
| 6 | Hardly a man is now alive |
| 7 | Until these fields were enclosed by private agreement or by act of parliament hardly a building was erected beyond the nucleus of the settlement , for every piece of land was precious . |
| 8 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 9 | Not a man stirred , hardly a breath was drawn . |
| 10 | But our own food supply is being decimated around us and hardly a hand is being raised . |