adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
narrowly avoided
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Alan narrowly avoided an accident.
narrowly beat sb (= by only a few points, votes etc )
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New Zealand narrowly beat the Springboks in South Africa.
narrowly escape sth (= only just avoid having something bad happen to you )
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The firemen narrowly escaped being killed by the explosion.
narrowly missed
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The bullet narrowly missed her heart.
narrowly missed
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They narrowly missed being killed in the fire.
narrowly (= by only a small amount )
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In 1916 he narrowly won re-election.
narrowly (= by a small majority )
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The Senate voted narrowly to continue funding the controversial project.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
defined
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Secondly, the competition of economic theory is cast solely in terms of price competition and narrowly defined profit maximisation.
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In its narrowly defined sense the responsibility of stewardship is to demonstrate that those assets have not been misappropriated.
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Blacks, on the other hand, harbour a much more narrowly defined set of possibilities on how they might advance.
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This kind of accountability goes beyond the narrowly defined stewardship of assets to include responsibility for the performance of those assets.
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Conclusion From its earliest origins, rape was a narrowly defined offence.
escaped
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His three year-old daughter Jade narrowly escaped death when bullets were fired through the front door.
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With Emma he had played with fire and narrowly escaped burning.
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Read in studio A baby boy narrowly escaped death when his pram was crushed between a car and a garden wall.
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A teenage mail-room worker at the Anglian Water headquarters in Huntingdon narrowly escaped injury when the package she was handling exploded.
■ VERB
avert
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A second jet disaster was narrowly averted in Bogota on Thursday.
avoid
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He sped away with them still on amber, narrowly avoiding a car coming the other way.
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And Chrysler narrowly avoided a major strike in August at its Detroit axle plant, another aging factory targeted for shutdown.
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This was narrowly avoided by producing a new programming scheme, involving local sponsorship as the future funders of individual exhibitions.
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It almost caused numerous accidents, here narrowly avoiding a head-on collision.
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An assault on the office building angered the men in the yard and violence was narrowly avoided .
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Two children in the car were rescued unhurt, and a woman inside the house narrowly avoided being hit by debris.
beat
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Although they were narrowly beaten it was a super effort by the team.
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Bush narrowly beat Bill Clinton, 38 percent to 37 percent.
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It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.
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In 1995, Giftrust narrowly beat the S &038; P 500.
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Odds-on favourite last time at Haydock, he was narrowly beaten into third place, but tomorrow should prove third time lucky.
defeat
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A motion on the opening day to put the work of the government to a vote of no confidence was narrowly defeated .
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Although they spent only $ 160,600 on their campaign, they narrowly defeated the proposition 51-49 percent.
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Our team was narrowly defeated in this year's area final.
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The housing project, which had been approved by the town council, was narrowly defeated by public vote.
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Auroux narrowly defeated the rival candidate, Henri Emmanuelli, by 113 votes to 109.
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Wilder narrowly defeated his Republican opponent in November 1989, his 6,700-vote victory being confirmed only after a recount.
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Mrs Field's amendment was narrowly defeated by votes to 21.
define
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It was a means of social improvement along narrowly defined routes, usually connected with the construction industry.
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Clinical managers have more narrowly defined responsibilities than generalists and have training and / or experience in a specific clinical area.
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The exceptional circumstances in which execution may be refused are very narrowly defined .
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Competition chili has no filler; it is simple, basic, and narrowly defined .
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In addition, school-to-work initiatives designed for narrowly defined occupations or industries may fail to attract students.
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No longer will it be sufficient to be good in a narrowly defined technical specialty.
escape
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For a moment Trent and Mariana were held immobile, stunned by the incredible power from which they had so narrowly escaped .
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During the war he narrowly escaped death dozens of times.
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In 1949 he narrowly escaped the first of three attempts on his life.
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Looking to her heart, she sees the chasm left by a death she narrowly escaped .
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Harassed by the nomad Scythians, whom he could not catch, he narrowly escaped the fate of Cyrus.
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Knowingly or not, others have narrowly escaped Pottker.
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He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
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In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
focused
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It is too narrowly focused and costly.
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The analyst was a prisoner of his own narrowly focused ambition.
lose
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It is sobering to recall that Messrs Henderson, Cartledge and Bukovsky narrowly lost the debate.
miss
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It narrowly misses the corner of an executive's brief case.
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She narrowly missed adding to the silverware in both the mixed and women's doubles too.
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Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.
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One girl had a lucky escape when a fence post narrowly missed her head.
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It narrowly missed one of the occupants who was sitting in the front room.
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Bardot was still recovering from shock after narrowly missing being shot earlier this year by hunters killing her pets.
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John Hutt fled down the small village main street, narrowly missing two elderly ladies.
vote
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The council voted narrowly last month to rejoin the devolved government.
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In the referendum the population of Western Samoa voted narrowly in favour of the introduction of universal suffrage.
win
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In 1916 he had only narrowly won re-election.
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The committee is widely expected to recommend punishments light enough to let Gingrich retain the speakership he narrowly won on Tuesday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A black BMW swerved, narrowly missing another car.
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A lot of workers have very narrowly focused job skills.
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Flying into the airport at Lima, we narrowly avoided a collision with another plane.
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He narrowly escaped arrest when the police raided his house.
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She narrowly failed to beat the world record in the 100 metres sprint.
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Smith narrowly lost the election.
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The article says Meyers narrowly escaped arrest in Rome last month.
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The bill was narrowly defeated in the Senate.
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The bullet narrowly missed her.
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We will have to consider your proposal very narrowly .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A similar proposal, brought by a shareholders rights group, was approved narrowly last year but rejected by the board.
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Although they spent only $ 160,600 on their campaign, they narrowly defeated the proposition 51-49 percent.
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Auroux narrowly defeated the rival candidate, Henri Emmanuelli, by 113 votes to 109.
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In both cases, the journalists narrowly escaped injury but the houses from which they had been transmitting were devastated.
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It narrowly misses the corner of an executive's brief case.
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Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.