Sentence examples for a slender margin of from inspiring English sources

One percent is a slender margin of growth when it comes to feeding a global human population where at least one in seven people go hungry.

They lost 1-0 against Mexico and could consider themselves lucky to have escaped from Natal with such a slender margin of defeat.

A hard-fought win over Francesco Moser in Italy saw him take the race with a slender margin of 1' 08" over the Italian who had pushed him every inch of the way by sprinting for every time bonus available.

This was only the sixth one-wicket win in World Cup history, although such a slender margin of victory appeared unlikely in the extreme as Brendon McCullum flayed a 21-ball fifto to lead the Kiwi pursuit.

Over 90% of independent shareholders voted with dissident investor groups to remove Gupta, who survived by a slender margin, with just 50.7% of the vote.

As it was, the company apparently won approval for the merger by a slender margin, about 45 million shares out of some 1.6 billion shares voted, according to a preliminary tally by independent inspectors.

Accounts for 2010/2011 reveal that the money was paid to a company called Zabaxe Ltd, which is owned by Mr Oyston senior, at a time when the club was relegated on the last day of the season by a slender margin.

Last year, in a referendum of their own, they decided, by a slender margin, not to become independent from the United Kingdom.

Three polls show the candidate of the governing party, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, leading by a slender margin.

The Tigers encouraged a boycott of the election, and, ironically, the dearth of Tamil voters helped Rajapaksa win by a slender margin.

A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court.