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
Eevi	E:-vee	Finnish
Adrian	AY-dree-ən (English), AHD-ryahn (Polish), AH-dree-ahn (German), ah-dree-AHN (Russian)	English, Romanian, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian
Michel	mee-SHEL (French), MI-khel (German)	French, German, Dutch
Nitya	-	Indian, Hindi
ÁIne	AWN-ye	Irish
Vinay	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil