Example sentences of "come perilously close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 2 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 3 | Although yesterday 's increase in rates intensified fears that the economy could come perilously close to recession next year , the instant judgement of most economists was that the worst would be avoided . |
| 4 | Would n't it come perilously close to desecration ? |
| 5 | Unknown to most people , he had also driven a Formula Two racing car belonging to world-champion racing driver Graham Hill around the track at Thruxton — and come perilously close to disaster . |