Example sentences of "[adv] get close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 2 | There is then some evidence to show that Japanese workers do indeed work for longer periods with each employer , but only 20 per cent of labour in the private sector stay long enough to get close to the peak of the wages profile . |
| 3 | One Harvard dealer an American boy , was fortunate enough to get close to this quickly By putting a wealthy client into some circumspect account trades , and so actually making him a lot of money , the dealer earned the client 's gratitude . |
| 4 | Nobody would ever get close to a man like Felipe de Santis and she refused to acknowledge that she wanted to get close . |
| 5 | Bearing in mind that the fish you already have in your pond will grow and place an increasing burden on the filter as they get bigger , you are probably getting close to the capacity of your pond and filter . |
| 6 | We are now getting close to the flanks of Akka , a seven-peaked mountain that has been visible for four or five days . |
| 7 | Sharpe spurred towards the nearest Belgians , but before he could even get close to the battalion a French column burst out of the rye and the Belgians , without even firing a volley , turned and ran . |
| 8 | Even given that these are projected figures , it would take a massive error to even get close to a break-even , never mind a situation whereby track costs were not covered . |
| 9 | They had found a paper in the literature describing the ratio of helium-3 and helium-4 in volcanic regions and were unknowingly getting close to the origins of Chatterjee 's ideas in India . |
| 10 | I would n't say it will die a natural death , but I think the current burst of enthusiasm for looking at job evaluation may cool significantly when managers actually get close to it and start to assess what they have to do to introduce it . ’ |