by a hair's breadth
By a narrow margin.
noun
The extent or measure of how broad or wide something is; width.
The breadth of the corridor is 4.5 metres.
The sledges of the Esquimaux are of large size, varying from six and a half to nine and even eleven feet in length, and from eighteen inches to two feet in breadth.
A piece of fabric of standard width.
Scope or range, especially of knowledge or skill.
expand one’s breadth of marketing
"The breadth of this LPR system is spectacular and amounts to a warrantless search."
A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
The length of the longest path between two vertices in a graph.