The result or the performance can hardly qualify as a surprise given the current state of things.

They hardly qualified for the moment as people who took themselves seriously.

"You hardly qualify as a host if they are not."

"You're hardly qualified to estimate the value of your information."

That contention hardly qualified as a new line of debate.

They were much too busy, and I hardly qualified as more than a routine case.

Of course not; otherwise, they would hardly qualify as crises.

"Well, I'm hardly qualified to make representations about my own mental health."

No, she corrected herself, it hardly qualified as an obsession.

Still, these hardly qualify as sensitive material, and it's a long way from classified.