bare possibility

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Says he: "1960 will be one of the industry's best production years, with a bare possibility of topping the 1955 record ingot output of 117 million tons."

From Time Magazine Archive

But the bare possibility can turn the most level-headed curator into a creature half Hawkshaw, half Walter Mitty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though her party is "very loosely organized" and has only "a bare possibility" of getting on the ballot in Texas and Washington, Mrs. Jensen believes she is a shoo-in, since her horoscope is favorable.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was always the bare possibility that the political lightning would mark him as its leader.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must plan experiments on the basis of probability, even bare possibility, rather than certainty.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas