It was a close shave, and it scares me to think about it now.
Last month, the government had a close shave when the 2001 budget only just squeaked through Parliament.
BJ8 sailed past the Earth at a distance of 5m kilometres (3m miles) a pretty close shave by astronomical standards.
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That close shave spurred Villa into action and Dion Dublin headed the ball goalwards only for Neville to make a goal-line clearance.
Coming on top of his close shave at last month's US Open at Bethpage, Fisher knows he is getting close to a first major.
Aardman had previously won Oscars for the animated films Creature Comforts in 1991, The Wrong Trousers in 1994 and A Close Shave in 1996.
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England had a close shave in the second over of their innings when Strauss edged Ryan Harris just short of Ponting at second slip.
Indeed, it was this close shave that inspired the Colorados and the National Party (known as the Blancos), to introduce a run-off this year, with the declared aim of keeping the Front out.
Driven 300 miles to Beijing then protected by supporters and fellow activists - and after a close shave with Chinese security agents - he finally reached the sanctuary of the US embassy in Beijing.
The veteran midfielder promised to shave his head if his team-mates extended his involvement in Euro 2000 and after they survived a close shave of their own against England, Hagi was as good as his word.
The world was already on edge in anticipation of the close-shave flyby of the near earth asteroid 2012 DA14, which was unexpectedly followed within the next 72 hours by two other separate fireballs over Northern California and parts of Florida.
The Ohio GOP understands that such voters are overwhelmingly going to cast ballots for Obama, so why not shave off a few thousand votes in what is expected to be a very close election?
While the rest of the company works to shave another 5% off the costs of supplies and wrestles with the union to close plants here and there and give up some health care benefits, Burns could cut GM's Gordian knot with the simplest element in the universe.
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