comfortable margin

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comfortable
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌm.fə.tə.bəl/us
/ˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ə.bəl/
Comfortable furniture and clothes provide a pleasant feeling and do not give you any ...
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margin
noun
uk
/ˈmɑː.dʒɪn/us
/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪn/
the amount by which one thing is different ...
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(Definition ofcomfortableandmarginfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Though they concede that most minimum standards are overly conservative, they insist that thiscomfortablemarginof error ensures that false identification will never occur.
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They won with acomfortablemarginevery one of the annual student union elections, up until 1972, the last to take place under democracy.
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The offers made by donors exceeded by acomfortablemarginthe expectations at the beginning of the conference.
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Should a third world war be forced upon us we shall have nocomfortablemarginfor error.
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Seeing that these cable companies are the predominant partner in the merger you may be quite certain that it will continue to work with a verycomfortablemargin.
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That is indeed a rare opportunity, but judging from his earlier performance he will manage to avoid having greatness thrust upon him by acomfortablemargin.
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He was reelected with a reduced butcomfortablemarginof victory and popular vote share defeating four other candidates.
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He then won by acomfortablemargin, 7,370 (58 percent) to 5,441 (42 percent).
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It had acomfortablemarginof power that allowed it to continue to cruise if one or even two engines weren't running.
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This was the world leading jump in 2006 by acomfortablemargin.
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It was acomfortablemargin, but defections always seemed to whittle down the lead and sometimes produced defeat.
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He was re-elected in the elections of 1997, 2000 and 2004, each time by acomfortablemargin.
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In the end, his popularity remained high, and went to win the election by acomfortablemargin.
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He held the district with acomfortablemarginof 220 votes.
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Sparks won the straight fight by acomfortablemarginto pick up the district for his party.
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Enzi won re-election by a verycomfortablemarginin 2002.
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They won the team title by acomfortablemargin.
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He would run for re-election in the 1949 federal election winning his second term by acomfortablemargin.
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He was elected by acomfortablemargindefeating 3 other candidates.
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In the race he defeated three other candidates by acomfortablemarginto hold the seat for his party.
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