Sentence examples for margin of an from inspiring English sources

The few in Calais who die trying to get to Britain are but tragic notes in the margin of an unfolding narrative of death.

The remains of Bed I are found principally where streams from volcanic highlands brought fresh water to the southern margin of an alkaline lake that existed at Olduvai.

It makes a lot of sense, because teachers are making their comments anyway – and instead of the old way, scribbling in the margin of an essay, you write into a website and it stays there for parents to look at.

Economists call this marginal value not because it is trivial, but because it is the value added by one unit of the resource (for example, one year's labor) at the margin of an already existing number of units employed.

Although their reputation has now been partly rehabilitated and they are recognised as traders, farmers, and brilliant shipwrights and metal and craft workers, a poem written in the margin of an Irish manuscript records a monk's relief that the wild seas that night were too rough even for Vikings.

(Renault, according to her biographer, had a particular fondness for the semicolon. I still remember the thrill I felt when one of my college professors wrote, in the margin of an undergraduate essay, "You have semicolonitis!") I was convinced that this lofty effort would persuade her that I would be a worthy correspondent.

The New Yorker, May 29 , 1943 P. 13Note for the Margin of a No. 2 Ration Book.

Tampa Bay missed the finals by the paper-thin margin of a 1-0 Game 7 road loss.

No-one could argue with the margin of a victory in an absorbing Black Country derby.

That allowed him to win with a "comfortable" margin of a few percentage points.

At these recesses the plp insert at the latero-posterior margin of a urosomal segment.