barely enough to

Yet, at the end of each day he would only have collected one or two rupees, barely enough to buy a dry chapati and a cup of sweet chai.

Lipper, an information group, reckons that the median European fund has euro25m of assets, barely enough to be economic to run.

They had to work from early morning until late at night for a wage barely enough to keep body and soul together.

Just 161, 000 tonnes of it has been mined in the history of the world: barely enough to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Jim male player salary is barely enough to maintain a small staff of life, the heroine Alexandra Xian-hui is a good housewife.

After repaying her debt in stools, she was left with 2 cents a day, barely enough to feed herself.

Their wages are barely enough to keep the wolf from the door.

The trouble is the power output still only amounts to milli watts, barely enough to trickle-charge a cellphone.

Barely enough to cover the cost of the food, but who cares?

my room is very small, barely enough to hold a bed and a wardrobe.

For him , that 's chicken feed -- barely enough to cover travel and hotel expenses .

But this, the oil companies argue, is barely enough to keep production stable.

Note that 3500 joules is barely enough to melt 100g of chocolate or heat water for a cup of coffee.

Her income was barely enough to maintain one child, let alone three.

I may end up wealthy, or I may earn barely enough to support myself.

eg. Her old age pension gives her barely enough to get by.

The average Beijing salary of 3, 700 yuan (about $550) is barely enough to live on in the increasingly expensive capital.

At the prevailing black-market rate, the sum represented just $30, barely enough to buy a 50kg sack of rice.