She was within an inch of being killed.

她险些丧命。

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New satellites will allow cars to pinpoint their position within an inch.

新的卫星系统能让车辆对自身位置的定位精确到一英寸以内，它能帮助汽车“死死盯住”数字化地图的车道。

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The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen.

窗帘拉到离地面窗框只有一寸，这样就不会被看到。

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"What we were able to find was that within a centimeter, around less than an inch,certainly, and probably half an inch, there were different regions perhaps they overlap some but they were doing, at different times, different processes, all within this small area,"

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As the ball came within an inch of falling, "My heart nearly stopped, " Scott said.

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In the NFL, everything, and I mean everything, is coordinated to within an inch of everyone's sanity.

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When one is jetlagged to within an inch of insanity, one lets it rip and damns the consequences.

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