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The phrase "a margin of barely" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It could be used in contexts where you want to express a very small or minimal difference, but it would need to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "He won the race by a margin of barely one second."
Alternatives: "a narrow margin of" or "a slight margin of".
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And Mrs. Bachmann barely won over Mr. Graves last year with a margin of barely 1 percentage point.
In 2015, Amazon recorded sales of $107bn but net profits of just $596m, a margin of barely 0.5%.
A YEAR ago Felipe Calderón won a desperately close election for Mexico's presidency by a margin of barely 200,000 votes.
In the border city of Tijuana, the PRI's Jorge Hank Rhon, a controversial gambling tycoon, won the mayoralty by a margin of barely 1% from Mr Fox's National Action Party (PAN), which had held it for 15 years.These results echo those of other state elections a month ago.
The contest was extremely closely fought, and Healey won by a margin of barely 1%.
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Six months later, amid dwindling enthusiasm, Mr Morsi secured the presidency by a margin of just 2%, with barely half the electorate taking part.
Soon afterward, he told me, the attack ad "dropped on me like the house in 'The Wizard of Oz.' " Braley, who won his seat by a margin of thirty per cent in 2008, barely held on in 2010.
Is there a margin of error?
Polls have a margin of error (duh).
–Demand a margin of safety.
It passed by a margin of 219 212.
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