Nearly eight hours work and they'd barely scratched the surface.

The Bill will barely scratch the surface of either problem.

Three days will give you time just to barely scratch the surface.

We've barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn.

Yet they barely scratched the surface of the club question.

I know that what you told me last night barely scratched the surface.

We could spend the next year trying to check them out and still have barely scratched the surface.

The money will barely scratch the surface but we believe that it is a start.

But these measures barely scratch the surface of what will be needed.

But computer industry experts say that money will barely scratch the surface.