Sentences with phrase «by a whisker of»

The Gunners lack of success in the big and even in the mediocre games hindered the Gunners from lifting the Barclays Premier League trophy last season, when they missed it by some whiskers of points.

Morley & Outwood is where Ed Balls suffered the biggest humiliation of the 2015 election, losing by a whisker of 422 to Tory opera singer Andrea Jenkyns.

Not exact matches

He's ready to seize the Chinese dragon by its whiskers on a host of issues ranging from North Korea and the South China Sea, to intellectual property rights and immigration.

Ancient Israel came within a whisker of being able to imagine its future only in the terms permitted and sanctioned by Babylon.

Barca did win a free - kick on the edge of the area for a foul by Arbeloa after on Iniesta for which he was booked after 37 minutes and Messi's shot went a whisker past the post.

They are strong, sound dogs of excellent hunting conformation, yet they were beaten by the long - coupled, light - boned show types, with their whiskers and nails trimmed and their already fine coats stripped down to where they wouldn't dare go near a briar patch.

Even House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck, a dedicated foe of anything but smokestacks in the dunes area, squeezed through his gerrymandered Second District by a relative whisker.

That reputation came a whisker away from being ramped up several notches as Terence saw his goal - ward header blocked by a brave Josh Vela, originating from a Joe Lolley cross at the second time of asking from the right flank.

The visitors were within a whisker of opening the scoring after five minutes when Eden Hazard found Marcos Alonso, whose first - time cross was volleyed against the bar by Alvaro Morata.

Wale Odunsi, deputy editor of DAILY POST missed death by the whiskers on Wednesday as a mobile police personnel attached to the Government House in Kogi...

And under a barrage of blows from the media, the Tory coalition and a bitter faction of his own party, he has rolled with the punches and tightened his grip on a leadership that was his only by a whisker.

STEFFEN NKANSAH (Eintracht Braunschweig) Braunschweig were one of the teams touted to make a return to the Bundesliga following last term's remarkable campaign — where they came a whisker from booking a top - flight ticket — only to be beaten by VfL Wolfsburg in the playoffs.

«The Comrade Governor's back - up vehicle was badly affected as well as three other vehicles conveying security officers and members of the Governor's Press Crew; the Comrade Governor's vehicle escaped by the whiskers.

By stimulating different areas of the motor cortex, they were able to selectively prod into motion the mice's forepaws, whiskers, and ears.

By running a current through the whisker, the researchers measured the change in resistance and, therefore, the amount of flex.

Among the 28 new species discovered by the team are four species of tiny tree - mice with whiskers so long they reach nearly to their ankles, and five species of mice that look like shrews and feed primarily on earthworms.

For example, rats get a sense of their surrounding environment by brushing their whiskers against surfaces.

Able to efficiently harness the energy of the whirlpools, the shapely whisker was set in motion even by slow - moving eddies generated by a faraway «fish.»

Inspired by rats and seals, scientists have developed a robotic «whisker» that detects air currents and builds two - dimensional images of what it senses using tomography, an imaging technique commonly implemented in MRI or CT scans.

◯ Raw numbers and box and whisker plot of weight of primary tumors (total weight divided by number of primary tumors) for each mouse.

Immediately recognizable by its long tusks and whiskers, the sea walrus is a hefty, flippered member of the Odobenidae family and is, in fact, the last living member of this group.

Asteroid TC4 will pass us by on October 12 at an estimated distance of 31,000 miles — that's an eighth of the distance between our planet and the moon, so just a whisker in astronomical terms.

L'Agence's «Solana» jeans are softly whiskered and faded by hand for the love - worn feel of a vintage find.

Indeed, most denim devotees would urge you not to wash (even by hand) your jackets and jeans for at least six months after purchasing, so as to preserve the fabric, avoid breaking down the fibres, and give your denim chance to take on its own distinct patterns (whiskering at the front, honeycombing behind the knees, perhaps even the shape of your wallet or phone in a pocket).

Measurement was taken from a size small and may vary slightly by size; Please note, any whiskering, distressing or fading is an intentional and desirable aspect of this product.

Finish by tracing a line along the center of your cupid's bow (between the bottom of your nose and top of your lip), then adding 3 whisker dots on either side with a black eye pencil.

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The third most popular reason to grow a beard is to feel more masculine, which gained 12 % of the vote — meaning that attractivity beat masculinity, but only by a whisker.

This is one of those rare occasions where the sequel is better than the original - but only by a whisker.

It's a must - see for Daniel Day - Lewis» charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln — and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones — but a colleague of mine at The Post has a point in describing the film derived from Tony Kushner's wonky script as «C - SPAN with whiskers.»

To this list of suitors we can add the would - be paramours, like Podalydes's Fabrice, or the side - whiskered eccentric whom she keeps running into at the fishmonger, played by the comedian Philippe Katerine.

There is a shaggy dog plot about Ben's search for a woman who came within a whisker of being his adopted sister, but the real inquiry here is into something metaphysical — the title refers to apparently random events that are influenced by the same forces that guide particles and planets.

Petter Rabbit (voiced by James Corden) is a buck - toothed, blue coated rebel without a carrot, always ready to goad Farmer McGregor (Sam Neill beneath heavy layers of white whiskers) and to steal his vegetables.

The memorably named Bengal tiger, a 450 - pound mass of pixelated muscles, fur, and whiskers, is with Pi the whole time during the ocean ordeal and their potential friendship is complicated by the tiger's wild tendencies.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

Activities to help learners of secondary mathematics to interpret frequency graphs, cumulative frequency graphs and box and whisker plots for large samples and to see how a large number of data points can result in the graph being approximated by a continuous distribution.

Because of that, it wins by a whisker.

They feel as if Sport mode isn't set up as the engineers and test drivers would like it because they've been overruled by the marketing department and market researchers who told them customers don't want a snadge more rebound damping and a whisker of extra response from the throttle.

[7] A distinguishing trait of the TV was a single front fog lamp, inset in the grille and flanked by two chrome whiskers.

That is stunning to say the least and would make for a 256 ppi display, missing the Apple iPad's pixel density of 264 ppi by just a whisker.

For as per the latest e-reader news, Borders has slashed the prices of its Kobo and Aluratek e-book reading devices so that it will now require you to shell out $ 129.99 for a Kobo e-reader, down from $ 149.99 while if its an Aluratek Libre reader that you'd like to have, the good thing is it has breached the proverbial $ 100 mark, by a whisker though so that its now available for $ 99.99, down from the $ 119.99 that it earlier commanded.

Escape Claws Cat Lady Mysteries # 1 By Linda Reilly ISBN 1516104196 lindasreilly.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New HampshirBy Linda Reilly ISBN 1516104196 lindasreilly.com Brought to you by OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New Hampshirby OBS Reviewer Jeanie Synopsis: Here, killer, killer, killer... For the first time in sixteen years, Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New Hampshire.

In terms of battery, the Galaxy Tab S3 beats Galaxy Tab S2 by a whisker as the former boasts a 6,000 mAh battery, compared to the latter's 5,870 mAh one.

Dogs also communicate certain emotional states by adjusting the alignment of their whiskers.

Some breeds, like the Cornish Rex and Devon Rex (a delightfully alien - looking cat described by the The Cat Fancier's Association as a madcap mix of a «cat, a dog, a monkey, and Dennis the Menace») have short, curly whiskers.

In 2010 there were approximately 72.5 million dogs owned by over 42,000,000 households.1 Additionally, just a whisker under half of those households consider their dog or dogs to be a part of the family.

Most love a good head rub, especially when the sides of the face by the whiskers are stroked.

Some cats are bothered by the sensation of their whiskers touching the sides.

Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.

Nurse sharks are easily recognised by their elongated caudal fin (tail) and barbels (thin, fleshy, whisker - like organs on the lower jaw in front of the nostrils that sense taste and touch).