The proposal was rejected by a very slim of margin.

"The God's call on our services has been slim of late."

By the slimmest of margins, she'd been handed a mandate for action.

Its last three matches have finished 1-0, the slimmest of victories.

The company said it won that vote, on May 9, by the slimmest of margins.

But you cannot sit and wait for death, not when there is the slimmest of fighting chances.

In one sense, this seems the slimmest of connections between days separated by 111 years.

In 1978, labor law reform legislation died by the slimmest of margins.

By the slimmest of margins, the child survived a night in the cold.

He was slim, of average height with the closed, set face of an old man.