But the band hardly matched the Beatles, and critics called its output uneven.

They're into drugs, too, and they've got a security system the Navy can hardly match.

Despite the differences, however, influence from the French romance cannot be discounted, particularly as its first part hardly matches the second.

After all, those daring deeds hardly matched the father she'd grown up with.

Even so, the production of these wines hardly matches that of the competition.

His tone had gone flat, and hardly matched the words.

Television has an emotional power, an immediacy that the written word can hardly match.

But the mild-mannered music hardly matches the exuberance of lines like that.

That is a robust gain, but it hardly matches the nearly threefold sales increase from the previous year.

Even with the engine at full power we could hardly match the force of the wind and waves striking against the hull.