Most public services have barely improved since the siege ended.

The figure barely improved yesterday when 215,200 went through the gates.

Collapse of the monetary system and city utilities brought the gallery to a "really catastrophic condition" that was barely improved by nationalization in June 1918.

Their British network of military roads was barely improved for 1,400 years after they went home.

The average score of third graders barely improved, by six-tenths of a point.

The right-hander said the club had barely improved its initial offer of a three-year, $14 million package that included an option year.

A system which, despite its funding being doubled, has barely improved...

The rest of the race barely improved.

Unfortunately, I get the impression that the situation with regard to these trade relations has barely improved in the last two years.

Skiing started here in 1896 and cynics suggest that the lift system has since barely improved.