And communities, in 21st-century Britain, scarcely exist - except online.

"You broke through my illusion as if it scarcely existed."

Elsewhere cultural diplomacy scarcely existed before 1914 in any significant way.

In both public opinion of a modern kind scarcely existed during this period.

But only a few people saw, or wanted to see, that his business scarcely existed.

"For me she scarcely existed," he told an interviewer in 1977.

That was somehow appropriate, for just as the program did not exist, so the dance scarcely existed.

The image scarcely existed; no wonder it had looked like a ghost to her.

They lived, indeed, in times when full-time chamber groups scarcely existed.

As yet such institutions scarcely exist in this country.