1, Karpov, the champion, came perilously close to losing.

2, We came perilously close to disaster.

3, Supplies are perilously low.

4, They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.

5, She came perilously close to getting herself killed in her attempt to break the world record.

6, Wouldn't it come perilously close to desecration?

7, The track snaked perilously upwards.

8, But he was perilously close to the edge of the crumbling cliff.

9, Panicked, angry and perilously close to tears, Isabel sprang for the door.

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11, He was perilously close to losing control over House Republicans, especially the newly-elected class of 73 right-wing ideologues.

12, In fact, at one point, Berni did come perilously close to being let out to play via a third-floor window.

13, The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.

14, Our high and rising house prices rest perilously on short-term interest rates.

15, Their much-vaunted looser approach sees the band edging perilously towards becoming just another pop-rock band.

16, The jobless queue is getting perilously close to the 4m mark.

17, He had backed away, had stood perilously on the parapet.

18, The wick lay almost flat in a perilously small amount of wax.

19, But as it turned out his majority was perilously narrow.

20, If beauty is the chink in our perilously thin female armor, motherhood is our Achilles' heel.

21, I was perilously close to being touched once and for all.

22, I suppose women students no longer brush their teeth at sinks positioned perilously close, I always thought, to the urinals.

23, Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.

24, Choir and audience wave to each other when the singing is over, some of the little boys leaning perilously over the parapets.

25, Lawrence, whose preference for more temperate seas brings it perilously close to the environs of civilization.

26, Last season's away form led to flirting with relegation and we went perilously close.

27, None of it registered, because she was fighting tears that were perilously near.

28, In winter the few cars that make it up the mountains skid along the roads, perilously close to ravines.

29, I eventually began to suspect that their devotion to organizing things comes perilously close to an obsession.

30, During the battle five Troll Slayers distinguished themselves by attacking and destroying three Trolls which were perilously close to crushing Duregar himself.

31, Are you aware that you're getting perilously close to slander?

32, In the middle of the game Kasparov, seemed perilously close to a loss.

33, He was a big bear of a man, well over six feet tall and perilously close to three hundred pounds.

34, The result is that the synagogue, which three years ago came perilously close to closure, is now busy every week.

35, They perilously close to the edge of the precipice.

36, In the meantime the financial system remains perilously fragile.

37, Greece will still be perilously close to insolvency.

38, It'seemed to me that we had come perilously close to failure already.

39, The other force is one of bitterness and hatred and comes perilously close to advocating violence.

40, But the rather unnerving reality is that general anesthesia transports us perilously close to death.

41, But Carl Sagan's warning came perilously close to becoming a prophecy and a harmless natural event in the sky,[] to triggering a terrible event here on earth.

42, When their governments "approached the IMF, the reserves of Thailand and South Korea were perilously low, and the Indonesian Rupiah was excessively depreciated."

43, A wolf spider treads perilously on the rim of a South American pitcher plant, perhaps looking to prey on insects drawn to the plant's strong nectar scent.

44, The Green turtle nesting season has run from June to October in the past but numbers returning have dropped to perilously low levels in recent years.

45, He stumbled with his old awkwardness after her, and his shoulders swung and lurched perilously.

46, After luring a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with chum diver Andre Hartman ends up perilously close to the premier predator off the coast of Gansbaai South Africa.

47, The country will thus be perilously set adrift, possibly towards the war.

48, We climbed rather perilously down a rope-ladder to the boat below.