He started out as rank-outsider, scraping into the leadership race with seconds to spare exactly 100 days to go.
When I arrived at my hotel and left the car in its parking lot, which, like almost all the world's parking lots at the moment, lacks charging equipment, I had nine miles to spare: exactly the amount I'd gained through my sister's outlet.
In the end, Mumia filed a Pro Se Motion for Post-Sentence Relief and Reconsideration of Sentence without a second to spare, exactly 10 days after the sentence was secretively issued in violation of the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure.
"Golan Cipel's lawyer's statement is exactly why the governor needs to spare New Jersey this ugly and painful episode," said State Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos, the Republican state chairman.
The transit authorities have already released an app that tells you when exactly the subway will arrive, to spare you having to wait with those weird people for too long.
Vizio can probably spare the cash, but this is exactly the kind of bad behavior that people feared would crop up when TVs started getting "smart".
So is it "spare the rolled-up newspaper, spoil the child?" Not exactly.
And that's exactly how I felt after decades of praying to God to spare me from an acute, chronic psychic pain.
Again, no one knows exactly who will be spared an early death from respiratory disease, heart disease, or cancer; there will just be more happy, healthy families in Texas and North Dakota.
Mr Corbyn was speaking exactly 100 days after he scraped into the leadership race with seconds to spare.
