Example sentences of "[indef pn] close to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 2 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 3 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 4 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 5 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 6 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 7 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 8 | After all , by conforming with the prejudices of many voters , it must offer something close to a ‘ dream ’ economic platform for the politicians . |
| 9 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 10 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 11 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |