Example sentences of "[noun sg] close to home " in BNC.
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| 1 | So people were increasingly being faced with the problem of lots more dog mess close to home and how to dispose of it ! |
| 2 | It is important , however , to have a source of money close to home . |
| 3 | ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home . |
| 4 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 5 | Since March the dogs have competed in a mixture of open and championship shows as far afield as Leeds , Doncaster and Stafford and the occasional show close to home . |