Example sentences of "come close " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also proved that they can come close to relieving Pakistan of the world title , provided they can peak again on Tuesday . |
| 2 | In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt it might come close to something like this . |
| 4 | He made telling first half stops and saw his forwards come close to securing three points . |
| 5 | Still , we do not come close to one local village which was left a field , the rents from which for centuries provided the poor with half-a-dozen sacks of coal ; but then the village sold its field to a property developer . |
| 6 | Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more . |
| 7 | But it does n't really come close to Rangers . |
| 8 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 9 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
| 10 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 11 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
| 12 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |
| 13 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 14 | Babies and toddlers love getting messy , and playing with sand or splashing in water outside in the sum must come close to their idea of heaven . |
| 15 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 16 | It was ironic to realise she 'd once come close to despising her mother for that frailty , when she was battling hard now not to fall into the same trap herself . |
| 17 | Average cost pricing or two-part tariffs may come close to the socially efficient output while allowing the monopolist to survive as a private company . |
| 18 | Until we begin to recognise our responsibility for the current situation , we will not come close to finding a solution that will lead African families to choose to have smaller families . |
| 19 | He wo n't come close to the lodge . |
| 20 | If you could imagine yourself being without the radio , T. V. , or telephone then you just might come close to imagining how difficult it must have been to spread or hand on the message of Christianity . |
| 21 | Well , it seems that none of the arguments that have been used so far would come close to defending the type of system that we 've got . |
| 22 | If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit . |
| 23 | A line between these polemical extremes would come close to Massie 's 7s 6d ( 37½p ) . |
| 24 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |