Idiom
By a hair's breadth.
If a person escapes from some danger by a hair's breadth, they only just managed to avoid it.
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"People are really interested in breadth," says Prof Bean.
"There's been success in breadth and in depth.
His range is extraordinary, both in breadth and in altitude.
What their youth gains in intimacy, it loses in breadth and ultimately strength of character.
There is strength in breadth as well as strength in depth.
The excellence of Dirt Rally, though, lies not in breadth, but in depth.
Let me count them in crumpets, in breadth of breads, in discount daffodils and spilt Yakult.
In breadth it corresponds to the urbane, integrative model that multiculturalism initially proposed.
Today the Wadsworth's Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo holdings are world famous, in breadth if not in depth.
If the deal is completed, Allianz will become an all-purpose financial conglomerate comparable in breadth and scale to Citigroup.
Analysis of data doth reveal that Aesop's lyrical flow is o'ertopp'd by none in breadth, e'en Shakespeare's.
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