Barely
Barely adverb - By a very small margin.
Somewhere
Somewhere adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: somewhere around 15,000 people live in town
Both words in one sentence
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Contrast with Deus Sex Machina, in which a required sexual encounter is awkwardly crammed in somewhere it barely fits.
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It has gotten mixed reviews from those that have played it, having being somewhere between a good game to a mediocre one at best, with the eastern world generally having a very high opinion of it while the western world barely know it exists.
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During the Heart Of The Monster storyline, he was somewhere between this personality and Savage, and became so enraged that he could barely move without causing entire continents to undergo tectonic shifts—a state which Hulk calls the "Worldbreaker".
Source: Comicbook / Incredible Hulk
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