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How to use within an ace of in a sentence

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In 1945 France was a great power that had come within an ace of extinction.
After taking Fiji to within an ace of beating France in the World Cup, his new charges accounted for Scotland at the Stadio Flaminio last week.
In the blue-ribbon Sydney seat of Willoughby, an independent came within an ace of defeating the Liberal candidate.
Trapped against the British minefields, his Afrika Korps came within an ace of running out of ammunition and fuel, but his legendary luck held.
And they went within an ace of creating the season's biggest upset by putting an end Shelbourne's unbeaten record.
In 1999, he came within an ace of causing a major upset in the Ballinrobe Electoral Area.
Kildare went within an ace of pulling off an unlikely win in Crossmaglen on Sunday.
And never forget we came within an ace of doing the same in Birmingham Hodge Hill as well.
Last week, we were within an ace of the success we have all been working for. We are still within an ace of success.
You know, Mara came within an ace of staying behind to oversee us?
John Major came within an ace of abolishing it altogether. If that had happened, few voices would have been raised in protest.
After 22 games in the current campaign, the Zimbabwe front man is already within an ace of beating his 15-goal haul from last season.
In the summer of 1873 France came within an ace of restoration.
What he did was maximise every ounce of talent he had and polished that right foot to within an ace of perfection.
Though grim-faced as they departed from Ellis Park Stadium, the Paraguayans could at least take solace from the fact they competed well against the reigning European champions, coming within an ace of reaching the last four.
In one particularly gruesome passage, father and son stumble on what might be described as a human larder, and then come within an ace of ending up on the menu.
He recently came within an ace of guiding Bosnia-Herzegovina to the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals, only for his side to fall to Portugal in the play-offs.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was within an ace of capture, and to save himself was forced back from the scarp.
The house was so shaken that it gave way at every joist, and he was within an ace of dragging the whole grange over on end.
This den of ours opens on the river's edge, and, two days since, his Indians came within an ace of nabbing me.
The stranger reeled and came within an ace of falling, but regained his footing right quickly.
I looked into his smug face, and I was within an ace of striking him.
First, of attacking your master, and being within an ace of qualifying yourself to be tried for murder,' interposed Ralph.
And I was within an ace of becoming an ornament of the British peerage.
Once a great noisy bee was within an ace of waking her, but I caught him with inspired dexterity, and he buzzed around her head no more.
Within an ace of being Count was he, And would have been but for the spite and gall Of this vile age, mean and illiberal, That cannot even let a donkey be.
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