The whole last hour is one hair-breadth escape and epiphany after another.
NEWYORKER: Beyond Rangoon
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The Welsh Assembly was set up only after a referendum approved it by a hair's-breadth, and that was after years of devolution campaigning by Labour.
ECONOMIST: Regional government
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Ms Mayhew came within a hair's-breadth of becoming a Tory MP in 1997 when she just missed winning the selection contest for Hampshire North West, one of the party's safest seats in the country.