I caught it before I filed, but I still had this gut-wrenching feeling that I'd narrowly avoided getting dragged off to jail for cooking the books to score a massive undeserved refund.
It took me years to realize that "The Ice Harvest" was an autobiographical novel of a life I'd narrowly avoided living.
Yet, while momentum was clearly with supporters of the bill, congressional aides continued to predict late Wednesday that it would be narrowly defeated--and proponents acknowledged that they were about five votes short of victory.
"I felt exhilarated, and not merely by the fact that I'd narrowly escaped a brush with death," he writes, and goes on: My thrill ran deeper; I had learned something from death.
The German moved slightly to his left to make Cavendish's way past slightly longer, and the Manxman closed so slowly that it seemed Greipel – last year's dominant sprinter – would narrowly beat him to the line.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but it's not completely outrageous that Andrew Scheer would narrowly beat out Maxime Bernier after 13 rounds of voting.
According to Faraday Future, the car is able to hit 60 mph in 2.39 seconds — which, if accurate, would narrowly beat out the 2.4 seconds it takes a Tesla Model S to hit 60 mph.
The OBR said the UK would narrowly avoid a triple dip recession by eking out growth of 0.1% this quarter, but it halved its growth predictions for the year as a whole to 0.6%, while it said the Government would have to borrow nearly £60 billion more than expected by 2017/18.
