One side of the silicon can then be etched down to within a fraction of a hair's width of the glass layer, leaving the other side as a support.

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On Sunday at the 2005 Masters he shot 68 to catch Woods and came within a hair's breadth of chipping in on the 72nd hole to win outright.

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Partial results showing Mr Fujimori within a hair's breadth of victory were announced, even as the computer centres supposedly counting them were closed for hours on end (see article).

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Ms Mayhew came within a hair's-breadth of becoming a Tory MP in 1997 when she just missed winning the selection contest for Hampshire North West, one of the party's safest seats in the country.

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The parts--as large as 2 feet on a side and accurate within five-thousandths of an inch (about twice the diameter of a human hair)--give more substance to sales pitches and reveal flaws earlier in a product's design.

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He predicted that within the next one or two years, microphones double the diameter of a human hair would be installed in mobile phones.

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People can easily move around within a metropolitan area, which allows them to choose from a wide variety of different hair-cutting services.

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