The Collaborative International Dictionary
hardly ever \hard"ly ev"er\ (h[aum]rd"l[y^] [e^]v"[~e]r), adv. Seldom; rarely; almost never.
Usage examples of "hardly ever".
Space shielding on a pod was supposed to be removable in emergencies, but it was hardly ever done, so naturally the manufacturers didn't bother to make it easy.
Did you know, swordsman, that a soul hardly ever stays with a body to the point of death?
Thousands of times in his dreams things had changed around him, but hardly ever the way he wanted them to.
The attacks on border worlds were so common that they hardly ever made the news in the Home Regions.
These are not true to the purity of the form and such people hardly ever escape detection.
I hardly ever failed, when I rambled through the village, to see a row of such worthies, either sitting on a ladder sunning themselves, with their bodies inclined forward and their eyes glancing along the line this way and that, from time to time, with a voluptuous expression, or else leaning against a barn with their hands in their pockets, like caryatides, as if to prop it up.
In practice you hardly ever encounter a serious bug while running Linux.
He had hardly ever spoken to the captain, but for the casual welcome aboard when he signed on.
It aimed at being advanced and freethinking, and hardly ever went to church or kept the Sabbath except by a little extra fun at weekends.
You know she hardly ever says anything, and sometimes I can see she ain't suited, and yet I don't know why.
Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable.
Then he went into his compartment and has not come out since, which is strange, since up till now he was hardly ever in the compartment.