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.

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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.