by a hair's breadth

By an extremely short distance or slim margin of time. They're just about to close the gates! it looks like we made the flight by a hair's breadth. The race was neck and neck till the very end, but Sally won it by a hair's breadth.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Haniyah	-	Arabic
Praskovya	prah-SKOV-yah	Russian
MĂDĂLina	-	Romanian
Fortunata	-	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
Hadya	-	Arabic
Dagon	-	Near Eastern Mythology