Narrowly
Meanings and phrases
narrowly
- in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions
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- They also narrowly missed out on gaining Harehills.
- In 1939, the team narrowly missed demotion.
- The EP narrowly missed out on the UK top 40, peaking at No.
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- 7) narrowly defeated Illinois, 49–42, in Columbus.
- But the Republican narrowly defeated him in an upset.
- Baltra narrowly defeated (PADENA), 58,050 votes to 57,284.
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- She narrowly lost in the second round by 520 votes.
- He then narrowly lost 3–4 to Tom Ford in the last 64.
- It narrowly lost a European Parliament seat.
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- Yazdegerd himself narrowly escaped to China.
- Smith and his partner narrowly escaped.
- In his youth he narrowly escaped being killed by his own horse.
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- An unseen Gray opens fire, hitting Cole and narrowly missing Dickson.
- After narrowly missing out promotion, Mozo returned to Leganés and its B-team.
- He represented his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics narrowly missing the final.
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- They only narrowly avoided relegation on the final day of the season.
- He narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy when business ventures failed.
- Hansa Rostock, appearing very rarely in his six-month spell, as relegation was narrowly avoided.
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- The four district plus a mayor narrowly won approval.
- "Cavalier" narrowly won the race after a safety valve blew on "Rapid".
- Watertown narrowly won the opening game against Oreo by a score of 6-0.
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- Scituate was the only town carried by McCain, and only narrowly.
- They only narrowly avoided relegation on the final day of the season.
- They had also only narrowly beaten the favored Oakland Raiders 27–23 in the AFL championship game.
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- Their final match was against NK Zagreb of Croatia at home narrowly losing 2–1.
- He finished second in the independents cup, narrowly losing out to Robb Gravett.
- He was drawn against Alex Roy in the first round, narrowly losing by three sets to two.
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- Setzler won more narrowly, with 52.3% of the vote to Castellana's 47.7%.
- He also won the second-largest city in the area, Staunton, albeit more narrowly.
- Or more narrowly as an emergent property between people and ways of processing information.
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- The Jews themselves were violently forced to convert, narrowly avoiding complete massacre.
- Despite narrowly avoiding defeat, Hoffa and his administration did not change course in the aftermath.
- McManus and Grady were sacked on 9 May 2010, after narrowly avoiding relegation from the First Division.
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- The desperate final attack of the Guard was narrowly beaten back.
- In season 1998–99 Northern were narrowly beaten by Doncaster R.F.C.
- At the next election in , Herring was narrowly beaten by Arthur Grigg of the National Party.
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- They only narrowly avoided relegation on the final day of the season.
- In the 2011-12 Serie B season, Knežević again made 31 appearances in all competitions as the side narrowly avoided relegation.
- Goretzka had an impressive 2012–13 season at VfL Bochum and was their standout performer as VfL Bochum narrowly avoided relegation from the 2.
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- In the 2010 election the seat returned to the Liberals with Elizabeth Miller narrowly defeating Hudson.
- He was elected Governor of Tucumán Province in 1991, narrowly defeating former military Governor Antonio Domingo Bussi.
- He also won at that year's national (AAU) championships, narrowly defeating Mark Winzenried as both were timed in 1:47.4.
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- She narrowly escapes and goes into hiding.
- He narrowly escapes Poppy's house, avoiding her argumentative parents.
- Meanwhile, Conde narrowly escapes his zombified platoon and finds Barrientos.
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- Abd al-Rahman, Yahya, and Bedr quit the village, narrowly escaping the Abbasid assassins.
- After narrowly escaping relegation in the two seasons following their debut, they were sent down in 1943.
- Wellesley arrived in Lisbon on 22 April 1809 on board HMS "Surveillante", after narrowly escaping shipwreck.
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- Crespo narrowly failed to qualify.
- Paty narrowly failed to reach electoral threshold and Bartoš decided to resign.
- However, the non-Labor parties narrowly failed to dislodge the incumbent Dunstan Labor government.
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- In sum, a narrowly defined mountain research applies an interdisciplinary and integrative regional approach.
- Numerical identifiers that are nominal numbers narrowly defined, viz, convey no information other than identity, are quite rare.
- This bill, which was rejected in congress, was not an all encompassing student bill of rights but was narrowly defined to address academic freedom.
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- Herrich-Schäffer, who supposedly narrowly beat Heidenreich in (re)describing the species.
- Phil Read joined the Yamaha team and narrowly beat Redman to become Grand Prix World Champion.
- President Omar Ali Bongo narrowly beat rival Jean Ping in the official results of the Presidential election in 2016.
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- It shows about ten faint grooves around the very narrowly perforate umbilicus.
- Male to male sex was illegal under previous law but it was very narrowly interpreted by the courts.
- Those at the base of the blade are ovate with those towards the tip, very narrowly ovate or elliptic.