The capacity for error, to succumb to nerves, to look silly, to crumble and burn, is greater than in any other context; consider the minute margins, stupefying silence and indefinite duration.
Even though the observed differences are statistically significant, the minute margins would not qualify COHb as a predictive marker for ICU mortality.
He did so with a two-minute margin over Jari-Matti Latvala of Ford.
Kennedy went on to win the Nantucket Sound Star Class Championship that year, and then competed in the 1937 Atlantic Coast Star Class Championships, winning one race by a massive four-minute margin.
But whereas he claimed victory two years ago by a nearly half-minute margin, Dixon's success this year was still in question until 24 laps from the finish, when he edged Dario Franchitti, his Ganassi teammate and the overall IndyCar leader for 2011.
I might test her, without warning, when we were taking a walk, she and I, block by block, and she was always able to report the time within a three- or four-minute margin of error.
Farquhar won the 500cc Classic race by a commanding five-minute margin on his 499cc Paton ahead of Norton-mounted Chris Swallow, his 10th MGP victory.
Or we might have seen some meaningful scrutiny of suspiciously late-arriving military overseas ballots that actually delivered George W. Bush's last-minute margin of victory.
"I like my cows a lot and I really wanted to keep them, so I came up with cheese as a 'value-added product.' I no longer sell my milk wholesale, so I'm not at the mercy of fluctuating prices and minute profit margins".
One only need think of Christine Ohuruogu's thrilling photo-finish victory over Amantle Montsho in the World Championships 400m final in Moscow earlier this month to appreciate just how minute the margins now are between success and failure in elite sport.
Had Luke Burton nailed a sideline conversion in the 78th minute, the margin would have been just six points.
