The opposition lost dozens of seats by tight margins.
Could the text be set in smaller type with tighter margins to cut the number of pages?
Paper manufacturing is highly competitive, with historically tight margins and small operating profits.
A lot of people think that is smart, but once you start to fight for a penny business, you're looking at tight margins.
He won the election by a very tight margin.
Management companies are, therefore, forced to work on a very tight margin of profit to remain competitive.
But tighter margins alone couldn't nullify the full effect of a 40 percent drop in the dollar.
That's a tight margin if we haven't been lucky with our sun-hopping.
But he added that both of the changes made sense, given the car rental industry's tight margins.
He'd made it, by a tight margin, and there would be a chance to get back at them after he reached the base again.