It's hardly possible he could lose the election.

I hardly think they'll come in this bad weather!

With this the second of three games in seven days for Stoke, it was hardly surprising to see nine changes from the side that started against Newcastle in the Premier League on Monday.

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

And what gentle flame soever doth warme the heart of young virgins, yet are they hardly drawne to leave and forgoe their mothers, to betake them to their husbands […].

While in Chelsea, Anne Smiley pined, taking very hardly to her unaccustomed role of wife abandoned.

Mr. Cholmondeley, the young men out here are much too hardly worked to allow them time for paying impertinent compliments.

Let him hardly be possest with an honest curiositie to search out the nature and causes of all things […].

I think the Beatles are a really overrated band. ― Hardly!

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