The phrase "edge of making" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe how close someone or something is to achieving an accomplishment or milestone. For example, "She was on the edge of making it into the finals."
But some writers achieve their effect through an accumulation, or make sense via sentences that are, by themselves, on the far edge of making sense.
Their groundbreaking research means Great Ormond Street has been at the cutting edge of making the impossible possible and the incurable curable.
The Stars had to shuck off the boisterous crowd, the Devils' home-ice edge of making the final line change, and the sense of inevitability.
Mr. Obama, in an emotional address at the Capitol, exhorted rank-and-file House Democrats to approve the bill, telling them they were on the edge of making history with a decisive vote scheduled for Sunday.
Indeed, the music further confuses us as it insinuates itself throughout this self-consciously "beautiful" work, which teeters on the edge of making us sick — by inducing a kind of emotional vertigo — before hiding behind its captivating, hard finish.
The music further confuses us as it insinuates itself throughout this self-consciously "beautiful" work, which teeters on the edge of making us sick — by inducing a kind of emotional vertigo — before hiding behind its captivating, hard finish.
But Ben Ramalingam's useful new book "Aid on the Edge of Chaos" makes clear it's a mistake to do the "wrong things righter".
That includes the protagonist, Agathe Villanova, a self-confident feminist writer (played by Ms. Jaoui with just the right edge of impatience) making the leap into politics.
It is a report from the edge of darkness, made in the consciousness of responsibility.
The pain, just on the edge of cramps, made him feel as if he had lost control of his arms.
So maybe the Lakers have found their winning formula, and they may yet return from the edge of oblivion, make the playoffs and reclaim some degree of respectability.
