Assertion: fountain pen's barrel | /r/CapableOf | become worn
Facets:
value: severely
type: DEGREE
value: in a few years
type: TEMPORAL
value: quite
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In several hours per day of hard use, the barrel became quite worn, and around 1986 I purchased a much cheaper steel-nibbed Targa and swapped the insides.
text: The barrel and cap became severely worn in a few years, and today it has the barrel of a different pen and the cap of yet another one.