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He had seen a near miss and had a bump with a forklift while using a pallet truck, which had led to lines being drawn to segregate pedestrians.
When the interview ends, you share a burst of laughter with your mates because of the near miss.
This has to be seen in the context of a tour where the company is performing five Handel operas, and one near miss out of five is no bad thing.
A survey reveals that one in three drivers over 55 has had an accident or near miss because they were running late.
It impacted a tank just seconds before a near miss knocked the right track from their Bradley.
When the laser bear hits a detector, the laser detector records a kill or near miss.
After his low-key build-up to the season's first major, he would be excused another near miss.
While this is plenty of distance in everyday terms, in astronomical terms, it is a very near miss.
As a result, 17 per cent said they had been in an accident and 13 per cent admitted having a near miss.
With a nuclear ballistic missile against a drone, a near miss was counted as a hit.
In 1921 he was allowed to bomb US navy surplus or captured German warships and proved conclusively that even a near miss could sink them.
Almost every near miss lately in which someone almost hit me resulted from their inattention as they gabbed, gabbed, gabbed on the phone.
On the hour mark Moreau picked out Fernandez in the box and he looked sure to score, but the outcome was another near miss, his shot shaving the post.
X was then warned of the near miss via a correspondent who had worked with him in the past.
For Roger Barker it was a near miss he said he would never forget.
When an airplane crash or near miss occurs, significant interest by the press and the public will almost certainly follow.
Most healthcare professionals will occasionally encounter a near miss that could recur and reach the patient, resulting in serious harm.
A child was nearly hit by a car last week, and a mother with a pushchair also had a near miss.
The force of one near miss blows him across the bridge, bouncing him off the side of a parked car where he smashes the window and then rolls on to the ground.
It was a near miss as far as I was concerned, a close thing.
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She was too angry to notice how near miss Campbell and Elinor were sitting to the open door.
Years back, an Invader bomber had scored a near miss on the building, and minor damage to stonework was unrepaired.
I would have liked to be near miss Desmond, as I wished to draw her out further in regard to her political principles.
That seat behind the new little girl was the only vacant one in the room located at all near miss Brown's desk.
For that reason I should like to come back here to school next year and be near miss North.
With respect to definition, a near miss may serve as feedback in that the miss was spatially near the target.
The UK Airprox Board report says the incident has been rated the most serious category for a near miss.
I thought it was a near miss because from the ground it looked like they were really close to each other.
A root cause analysis is performed following the occurrence of a significant incident or near miss.
I should be very glad to be near Miss Emma of course, and always am.
Perhaps, I thought, with sudden approach to hidden truth, it was the same thing which had kept him over a week, nearly ten days indeed, from coming near Miss Haldin.
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