Sentences with phrase «only by a hair»

Establishing new positions was the most popular move millennials plan to make, but only by a hair.

It might be a more dignified role for the Oscar - nominated actor than, say, his turn in 2004s «Benji: Off the Leash,» but only by a hair.)

If «Three Billboards» is out in front, it's only by a hair.

Factory's release, but only by a hair.

Only the upgrade C63 S will top it (for $ 20,000 more), and then only by a hair.

I ended up buying it off the truck a week later, but only by a hair's breadth of buying a Lexus CT 200 Hybrid.

Daisuke managed to stand his ground only by a hair's breadth.

Rather, it's an evolutionary bump over its predecessor, which is enough for iPad 2 to be competitive with, and stay ahead of, its tablet competition, even if only by a hair.

At least this slate surpassed the tablet category average of 2,813, but only by a hair.

«It is my favourite, but only by a hair's breadth over Monument Valley, and the Rockies.»

The PS4 is our overall top pick, but only by a hair.

The MacBook Pro 13 scored even better in Geekbench 3's single - core metric, beating all competitors, if only by a hair.

But as well all know, the 5T has note quality to offer for your money, so I declare it to be the better phone in design, though only by a hair of advantage.

But the Huawei Watch is hardly alone in this; Motorola's new Moto 360 is even thicker, if only by a hair.

Not exact matches

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index registered at 95.9 in April, which was only a hair below the 96.0 expected by economists.

The lighter, more aerodynamic Tesla Model S P90D was only beating the Model X P90D by just a hair in speed, so the benchmarkers over at Drag Times got to the bottom of it and found that the bulkier electric vehicle is more powerful of the pair.

By contrast, her sister Evie has a mop of thick golden - brown molasses curls which only gets bigger instead of longer: yesterday she plaintively asked why Maggie wakes up with her hair «already done» while she has to endure a de-tangling session every morning of her life.

The first is Caravaggio's «The Flagellation of the Christ» and shows a chilling and private event; we are the only witnesses to the three men, half hidden by darkness, who force the Lord against a pillar, grabbing His hair and kicking Him as they prepare to beat Him, the cruelty in their faces contrasting with His own quiet dignity.

I think I would enjoy Dylans book, I have only been reading books for a short time now, my friend from church, loaned me Angels in my hair, by Lorna byrne, I was hooked straight away,,,, Not having much schooling as a child this is also helping me with reading skills....

Paul could be saying «if you do not want to look like a prostitute or rebellious feminist by cutting off you hair, don't prophecy or pray with your head uncovered either», to make the same comparison possible we would only have to see how worldly women today appear.

Only by evolving did we acquire so complicated bodies, even now the appendix is worthless, and eventually disappearing completely from our bodies in time, just like body hair, and tails and rough skin.

The girls at my hair salon whom I served it to told me that they'd never know it was allergen - free if I hadn't said anything - and a few of the ladies who had children at home loved that the only real indication of the vegetable at all were the green flecks, which can be eradicated by simply peeling the zucchini!

According to an Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis (2010) of the 10,500 ingredients used in toothpaste, sunscreen, nail polish and personal, hair and skin products, only 13 per cent of them have been reviewed for safety in the last 30 years and that was by the Cosmetics Ingredients Review, which is run by the cosmetics industry.

Results of a multi-breed research project conducted by a Canadian Government Experiment Station, reveal that the Galloway ranks second only to the Buffalo in hair density tests.

I left feeling like a changed creature, visibly different (a built - in measure for success), even if only by virtue of the shirt and the hair.

At the moment, the only things that remind her of the game are some trophies and medals and one favorite picture by the door: She's teeing off; there's a yardage chart Happing in her back pocket, and her long ponytail — so much hair!

If you took a bird's eye view of Puerto Rico and drew a line down the middle, north to south, you would only miss passing directly through the small city of Coamo by a hair.

It's not in the books that someone has to grab by the hair and then pull it behind — only in sex masochism.»

Only thing to fault was Bellerins hair style — very Richard III, but with our «winter of discontent, made glorious by this sun of York (Wembley)» perhaps spot on?

It's not in the books that someone has to grab by the hair and then pull it behind - only in sex masochism.»

His poor form hasn't gone unnoticed by Arsenal fans, who seem to believe that his terrible performances have only started since he began growing his hair...

We only have a few years left to enjoy ourself before REAL old age kicks our asses and relegates us into generic blue - hairs, dismissed by every other living person on Earth as waiting to die.

Dear son is only 18 months and doesn't actually ask if I'm awake, but getting him to sleep takes 30 min - 3 hours and much of that time is spent poking mommys eyes, nose, ears, mouth, pulling hair trying to pet it (cuz by the end of the day it's a fuzzy mess).

By the time they're standing in the kitchen, hair on end, clothes on backwards, they've only got two minutes before they have to leave the house.

Lice don't fly, hop or jump and are only spread through direct contact with an infected person or by using an infected person's hat, bedding or hair brushes, where nits and lice can survive for up to two days.

In some cases, flakes are caused not by dandruff, but by unrinsed excess shampoo flakes, so make sure your child uses only a small amount of shampoo, no bigger than the size of a dime, and that he rinses his hair out thoroughly, according to Baby Center.

Some babies have a full head of hair by now, while others have only a few wisps.

The illumai system was developed by a former pediatrician and globally recognized immunology scientist to gently clean, nurture, rebalance and protect hair and scalp, using only 7 ingredients.

By one month, you will notice that most of the lanugo hairs are concentrated only at the baby's back and shoulders.

By not sending another Mustached American to Congress — and there are only 30 in Congress with facial hair, not including Nancy Pelosi — the American people and the voters of New York have robbed themselves of Mustached American - laden leadership, rugged good looks, and the ability to cut through pork belly appropriations and the weak - kneed spirit that plagues our current Congressional representation.

Even his wife is familiar to him only by the quality of hergait, the length of her hair, and the clothes she wears.

This new video of life thriving in the murky cold comes courtesy of Nereid Under Ice (NUI), a lightweight, remotely operated vehicle connected to its surface ship by only a hair - thin fiber - optic tether.

Although previous studies have found that a large percentage of hair colour variation is explained by heritable factors, previous genetic studies only identified a dozen or so hair colour genes.

Marine algae are so tiny — 50 of them side by side span only the width of a single hair — that they may seem harmless.

Study of the materials has been hindered by their extremely small size: A single metal thread is sometimes only as thick as a human hair, and the thickness of its gold coating is a hundredth of that.

At the end of 3 weeks, when the volunteers were waking up about 4 hours later than they used to, the activity of their hair follicle circadian genes had shifted too — but only by about two and a half 2 1/2 hours, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Their method, published ahead of print in the Oct. 17, 2008 online edition of Nature Biotechnology, not only provides a practical and simple alternative for the generation of patient - and disease - specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair.

The only topical treatment that has been approved by the FDA for hair loss in women is minoxidil, better known by the brand name Women's Rogaine ($ 44 for a 4 - month supply; amazon.com).

To my delight, not only did I speed up the growth process by a few inches, but I also improved the appearance of my hair from all aspects but specifically its health and feel.

Silicon (also known as silica) is an abundant mineral nutrient (second only to oxygen) that's needed by the human body for the synthesis of collagen, making it important for healthy hair, skin, nails, and bones.