Sentence examples for perilously small from inspiring English sources

This film is a powerful example of successful narrative through a single story to illustrate the perilous fate of the larger, but still perilously small group of the world's last remaining lions.

However, Labour's leads on some critical issues – that, for example, it would take the right decisions to help an economic recovery – are perilously small.

So she was pregnant almost immediately, and had her daughter when she was 13 – Prapti was 1.5kg (3.3lb), perilously small and very fragile.

At just 5m long and 1.5m wide, it would have been a perilously small vessel for crossing the stormy seas between Scandinavia, Scotland and Ireland.

For the intensely loyal but perilously small "Chuck" fan base, the scene is indicative of a new creative direction that this action-comedy series has adopted as it begins its third season.

In an age of enduring economic prosperity and high-tech solutions to just about everything, making milk has only grown more difficult, and the difference between turning a profit and turning the farm into a subdivision, any dairy farmer will tell you, remains perilously small.

I looked through the open window at the launch as it bobbed playfully in the water next to my own small boat, which suddenly seemed to be lying perilously low in the water.

The news that there might be enough air to keep the miners alive was a shift from a day earlier, when a microphone lowered into the mine through a smaller, two-inch hole detected no sound and air samples indicated perilously low oxygen levels.

With a small, star-free cast, the show has been struggling to translate its tender story into sales; as it entered its final week of previews, its advance stood at less than $500,000, perilously low for a Broadway musical.

Her poems bring with them perilously low barometric pressure.

Its public pension fund is perilously low on cash.