one-bar

It's like going from a one-bar connection on a cell phone to five bars.

Therese Borchard: 12 Ways To Pray During Lent 2009

My grandparents' three-storey house was heated by two one-bar electric fires and an open coal fire.

Making Light: Snowpocalypse Part Next 2009

Bought by AOL in December 2005, this video-search site favors the one-bar search that Google made popular.

The Elite 8 in Video... 2006

For fifty shillings a week I had a grubby room, with a one-bar electric fire to heat it, a minute one-ring cooker, a single bed, an ancient chair and a moth-eaten rug.

John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

It abated as the temperature dropped from nearly 300K in the outer reaches of the atmosphere to a brisk seventy-four at that magic one-bar level.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

There was a one-bar electric fire in the room, but the heat was having no difficulty escaping through the cracks in the door and window.

Set in Darkness Rankin, Ian 2000

Instead, there was a one-bar electric job, just about glowing with warmth, and there were two radiators.

Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992

Breakfast was a cheerless affair with a little one-bar electric fire fighting an unequal battle and all of us trying to stop our teeth from chattering.

Every living thing Herriot, James 1992

They can't really help each other, either, as Tami's one-bar cell phone call to Julie in a moment of sexile shows.

Slate Magazine Emily Bazelon 2011

(This is confirmed by the one-bar Autochartist Initial Trend reading.)

FXstreet.com 2010