The position of women has hardly improved in most countries.

"Fuel economy has improved hardly at all in 20 years."

Things have hardly improved since half time and it's all Liverpool.

If that was rough enough, it hardly improved for him at any stage of the match.

He spent 18 months in jail, a punishment that hardly improved his condition.

The country's economic outlook is hardly improved; the best prognosis calls for 1999 to be a lot like 1998.

He could hardly improve on a five and it was up to Bond to hit a really godlike second shot from a barely adequate drive.

'One does not go out for a meal just for the food,' he added, hardly improving the situation.

In the 19th century the traffic connection was hardly improved and bigger industries moved to Wissen.

And test scores can hardly improve when newly arrived immigrants who speak little English must take standardized tests with no preparation.