In fact, the agreement set off an explosion in the exports of many products Mexico had scarcely traded before.

ECONOMIST: Economic models

They may scarcely show up before Mr Fox comes to the end of his term.

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Yet scarcely was Mr Powell's plane out of Saudi skies before the caveats blew in.

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