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  • adjective idiomatic perfectly measured.

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Examples

  • The Irish side's fading hopes were then dealt a fatal blow on the hour, when Karadeniz capped a fine individual display with an inch-perfect curling finish off the underside of the crossbar after latching on to Bebras Natcho's inviting pass.

    Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report 2011

  • Sean St Ledger picked up the ball on the left and delivered an inch-perfect cross for fellow defender Mills to head home his first goal for the club – his last coming for Reading in last season's play-off final defeat by Cardiff.

    Southampton 0-2 Leicester City | Championship match report 2012

  • Under immense pressure to plug its catastrophic American oil leak, BP is preparing for a hazardous last-ditch salvage operation that risks making the gush of crude into the Gulf of Mexico even heavier if its robotic submarines fail in an inch-perfect exercise to cut through a broken pipe a mile beneath the ocean's surface.

    Barack Obama and BP warn of risks in oil spill 'open heart surgery' 2010

  • He capped the drive by laying in an inch-perfect touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson to open the scoring.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Cathal Kelly 2011

  • He capped the drive by laying in an inch-perfect touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson to open the scoring.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Cathal Kelly 2011

  • Daniel Sturridge played an inch-perfect through-ball and Drogba rounded Bernd Leno before lashing wildly into the side-netting from a tight angle.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Right-back Lee Peltier, Eriksson's first of 10 signings this summer, grabbed the vital breakthrough in the 52nd minute as he nodded home an inch-perfect cross from Richie Wellens.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Fernando Llorente gave Athletic a shock lead after 12 minutes following an inch-perfect pass from Javi Martinez and in an evenly-contested first half Oscar De Marcos was denied the visitors' second after keeper Iker Casillas blocked well.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • Right-back Lee Peltier, Eriksson's first of 10 signings this summer, grabbed the vital breakthrough in the 52nd minute as he nodded home an inch-perfect cross from Richie Wellens.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Right-back Lee Peltier, Eriksson's first of 10 signings this summer, grabbed the vital breakthrough in the 52nd minute as he nodded home an inch-perfect cross from Richie Wellens.

    The Guardian World News 2011

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