Meanings of marginally short in English

That time, he left a putt for a 59 marginally short.

There is no excuse for being anything marginally short of physically and psychologically perfect.

It would be only marginally short of miraculous to reach agreement against such a gloomy backdrop.

Joyce arrives to his first Olympic Games after a herculean effort to qualify for London fell marginally short.

This marvellously gifted player had given his all, but it was marginally short of good enough in the end.

Railway are only marginally short of the finishing touches which would earn them more points than they have collected.

O'Rourke was billed as the star attraction and lived up to that, despite falling marginally short in the 100 metre hurdles.

Neil Lennon stopped marginally short of labelling the visit of the Dutch champions as a must-win game, but Celtic's manager admitted defeat would be disastrous.