"estimated at barely more than 1 percent annually" = less than 1%?
I read this from the internet news. Does it equal to "this year hardly achieves 1 %."
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barely more than 1 percent is still more than one percent. even if it is 1.01 percent that .01 makes it more than and not less than.
3
barely = hardly
barely more = a very tiny bit more
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