Which isn't surprising: the best place for oysters is the margin between saltwater and freshwater, where river meets sea.
So wide was the margin between master and pupil, both in musculature and in technique, that Hemingway could without difficulty refrain from doing his opponent any damage.
Seldom is the margin between the Championship's perennial cellar dwellers this wide, and indeed this was only the second time in seven Six Nations meetings that the difference has reached two converted scores.
Such are the margins between winning and losing.
Some 85% of adults cannot read or write.In the fields, so slender are the margins between success and failure that a single bad harvest last year almost tipped the south into famine.
And those are the margins between being a really good team or a really average team.
Such is the margin, sometimes, between victory and defeat.
That was the margin in April between Google, powered by its YouTube numbers, and the online-video runner-up, Yahoo.
"We're aware the margin between Democrats and Republicans is shrinking, and Suffolk voters are more inclined to be independent thinkers," said Alan Eysen, Mr. Romaine's campaign manager.
The consequence is that the margin between the MP echoes and the direct signal is reduced.
