WordNet
adj. very few; "hardly a man is now alive who remembers that famous date and year" [syn: hardly a(a)]
Usage examples of "hardly a".
She had not begged yet, not when they made her walk all day with hardly a drop of water, not when they forced her to keep up as they ran for hours, not even when their switches made her howl.
She did instinctively bring her sword across, and with hardly a conscious effort, sent her fears into Defender, a sword so named because of the line of small magnetites, lodestones, set into its guard.
She took up her tray and weaved across the room, getting back to the corner table with hardly a drop spilled.
Entreri replied, with hardly a conscious thought, though he had to bite back a chuckle at the irony after he heard the name come out of his mouth.
These two and Elbryan, along with a contingent of Kingsmen and some renegade monks, had gone all the way back to the Barbacan, after all, hundreds of miles through the Wilderlands, with hardly a sign of the monsters.
With hardly a thought, the magically mighty Aydrian could turn his already fine blade into a flaming sword, and with another thought, could make it strike like lightning.
Lodging as I did in Bond-street, there was hardly a day in which I did not catch a glimpse of one or other of you.
The Chinese second strike potential was hardly a threat, in terms of either range or power.