The thin lines between success and failure can be measured by the width of a dimple.
Science and music, father and son, were separated by the width of the auditorium.
The chip industry measures its progress by the width of one of the smallest features of a transistor.
The two swimmers who are separated by a giant personality gap were barely separated, by the width of a hair, in the moment that counted most.
There is a 22-year age difference between these two, a gap which can also be measured by the width of two Green Jackets.
But while the book is billed as fiction, its protagonist, Ali, can barely be separated from Eskandarian by the width of a guitar string.
The move reached its deserved climax as Bowe made the final salmon-leap, avoiding the corner flag by the width of his arm hairs.
69 mins: Ward's immaculate record comes to an end by the width of less than a post; it strikes the upright and the Lions can breathe again.
Instead Saghabi was denied unique personal and team glory in the final match by the width of the woodwork as his free-kick pinged off the crossbar.
The only mathematics you need to know is that the area of a rectangle is the length multiplied by the width.
The latter will be happier, nearly holing a long birdie effort, while Tiger missed a much shorter birdie attempt by the width of a dimple.
