He was a popular leader but lost the election by a very narrow margin.
You're working on a very narrow margin, you see, between bit and miss.
But by a narrow margin, things are getting better in Iraq.
Running on the Democratic line, he won election by a narrow margin.
He caught it, true, but only by a very narrow margin.
He and his wife lived on a very narrow margin.
The name change was passed by a narrow margin of 3,123 to 3,003.
There wasn't room for that in the narrow margin of life left to them.
On 16 February 1936, the left won by a narrow margin.
In 1986 he lost by a narrow 52% to 48% margin.