Sentence examples for narrowly fail from inspiring English sources
i 69 min: Anelka and Lampard both narrowly fail to get decisive touches on an in-swinging Malouda free-kick.
Lord Coe said: "The sadness of it is I was actually at the badminton yesterday and I saw a British competitor narrowly fail to progress but the games were incredibly competitive in front of really large enthusiastic audiences - unacceptable.
Ibrahimovic claimed the assist on the equaliser and he was close to snatching victory in the 82nd minute only to narrowly fail to get a touch to another Olsson cross.
England coach Sir Clive Woodward watched his world champions narrowly fail to pull off a second-half great escape against France and admitted: "I thought we were going to do it".
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill was magnanimous in defeat after seeing his side narrowly fail to win a third successive Premiership crown.
The Association of School and College Leaders says it is worried that students who narrowly fail to get the grades they need to go to their first choice university may be left hanging on before that university decides whether to take them anyway - or reject them.
A similar bill narrowly failed in Georgia.
(Efforts to override his veto narrowly failed).
Pacheco narrowly failed to apply the decisive touch.
He narrowly fails to make the list this time.
