It was a wafer-thin majority for a Prime Minister who had invested everything in its outcome.

But come this week they will get their turn in the driver's seat, with a wafer-thin 10-to-9 majority.

This may be true in part, but their main concern was their wafer-thin majorities, and therefore the need, again, to avoid controversy with voters.

After the package was voted through by a wafer-thin majority, politicians were escorted out of the parliament by police.

But with Republicans holding a wafer-thin majority in the House, both parties are striving mightily to gain whatever partisan advantage they can from the process.

The House of Representatives was won by the Republicans by a wafer-thin 61-59 majority.

For eighteen months the Government lived on a wafer-thin majority which was shaved down to two seats, and in economic circumstances of exceptional difficulty.

He won the election by a wafer-thin majority.

For one thing, she has a wafer-thin majority in the new Parliament.

No Government could continue on so wafer-thin a majority.