Sentence examples for wafer-thin margin from inspiring English sources

The Coalition is still ahead, but on the wafer-thin margin of 2%.

The second of those losses, by a wafer-thin margin, seems to have been a high-water mark for separatism.

Elected in 2007 with a wafer-thin margin, her old constituency has now disappeared, forcing her on to ground more favourable to the right.

Mr. Schröder achieved his wafer-thin margin of victory partly through an antiwar campaign that was critical of Mr. Bush's Iraq plans.

The venue is in the Brisbane seat of Petrie, which fell to the Coalition in the 2013 election but is held by the wafer-thin margin of 0.5%.

The last presidential election in 2003 was decided by a wafer-thin margin, around 80 votes at the time of counting, yet there was no violence.

The result is wafer-thin margins and closures.

The giant entertainment companies already complain about wafer-thin margins and are threatening layoffs.

But it is built on wafer-thin margins of just 2.5%.

This was further sharpened by the Republicans' capture of Congress in 1994, and the wafer-thin margins that now divide the House and the Senate.

Balfour has been hit by the mounting costs of its contracts and wafer-thin margins during the recession, following a period of rapid expansion since 2000.