Sentence examples for narrowly failed from inspiring English sources

It only narrowly failed.

(Efforts to override his veto narrowly failed).

In 2009 it narrowly failed to assassinate Muhammad bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia's interior minister.

A ballot measure on repeal in California narrowly failed last November.

He narrowly failed; but this reinforced the judges' old political loyalties.

(Markit tried but narrowly failed to buy a clearing house, LCH.Clearnet, in 2011).

The Suffolk Legislature approved, but the measure narrowly failed in the Nassau Legislature in July.

Scotland in particular only narrowly failed to reach the semi-finals.

Last Thusday, MPs narrowly failed to approve the plan - as striking workers protested in Nicosia.

Qatar narrowly failed to beat London to the 2017 world athletics championships.

A similar referendum on changing the electoral system narrowly failed to reach a quorum last year.