Sentence examples for narrowly better from inspiring English sources

His actual time yesterday was recorded by Omega as being 9.7629, which was narrowly better than the 9.7666 Gatlin ran in Doha last month and his own record time, which he did almost exactly one year ago in Athens.

It narrowly had the better of a Best of Top Gear repeat – him again!

In 2000, voters in Maine narrowly defeated a better organized campaign for a measure modeled on the Oregon law.

Valentino Rossi narrowly got the better of Andrea Dovizioso to win the opening race of the 2015 MotoGP season in Qatar.

The world junior champion threw a national record of 84.58m with his second attempt, a mark that Ukraine's Oleksandr Pyatnytsya and the Finn Antti Ruuskanen narrowly failed to better.

Saturday's contest, once again presented for UK viewers by Graham Norton, narrowly had the better of the next biggest audience, the 8.7 million people who saw Scooch finish 22nd in 2007.

Within months their clubs were meeting in a Challenge Cup semi-final at the McAlpine Stadium, which Leeds won narrowly but is better remembered for the pitch invasion in which hundreds of Hull fans pulled down the goalposts.

Hannah has better luck, narrowly escaping being sold into the "fancy trade" -- a market for slave concubines centered in New Orleans.

Since August, the Supreme Court has been pressuring the media regulatory authority to define "obscenity" more narrowly in order to better censor offensive content from Pakistani airwaves.

Curiously, One Direction, the programme's highest-profile graduates, only finished third in the 2010 series, confirming the view that, in career terms, it is often better to narrowly lose a Cowell brand; Susan Boyle, a runner-up on Britain's Got Talent, is much better known than Diversity, the dance group that beat her.

To divide the world into good and evil, however effective that is as a means of building political support and however gratifying that may be to Americans who see their country as a "city on a hill," risks broadening a war that would be better kept narrowly defined.