Example sentences of "quite close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you have the situation where you want to put two occasionally-used machines quite close to one another , it may be to your advantage that their heights are exactly the same so the job can run across both tables . |
| 2 | It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I that the Burlington Arms was built in Church Street , Chiswick , quite close to St. Nicholas Church , and the building still exists , although much altered internally , and in more recent years used for residential purposes only . |
| 3 | The General 's father was the Rev. Henry Montgomery , the vicar of St. Mark 's Church , Kennington , when Bernard was born , but two years later he was appointed Bishop of Tasmania , to whence the family moved returning to England some twelve years later , when Bernard was fourteen years of age , and in January 1902 , the family moved into a Victorian house , 19 , Bolton Road , Chiswick , quite close to the River Thames and open sports grounds . |
| 4 | ‘ I wass quite close to it , after all — much closer than I thought . ’ |
| 5 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 6 | One or two people at the other end were snoring and once someone quite close to me shouted in his sleep : |
| 7 | Even in 1986 , a small household survey conducted in two suburbs of Maputo — Machava ( quite close to the centre ) and Xipamanine ( at a considerable distance from the centre ) found that 10 to 14 per cent of households questioned mentioned difficulties in letting their children attend school . |
| 8 | There is a dairy farm and two farmers who keep pigs quite close to the centre of the village , but the larger farms with their pigs and sheep and production of cereal crops are on the outskirts of the village . |
| 9 | However , the facilities we private pilots require are provided quite close to Auckland by two very active GA airfields , Ardmore and North Shore . |
| 10 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 11 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 12 | A pair of spotted woodpeckers nested in what was known as the Little Wood below the lake and when the nuts were ripe on the copper cob trees a nuthatch came up quite close to the house . |
| 13 | While I was visiting the area , one perched on a small hawthorn tree on the other side of the road and I got quite close to it . |
| 14 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 15 | It brings us quite close to what is essential in some kinds of abstract art : when we look at the work of Rothko or Barnett Newman or maybe Brancusi , what is it exactly that makes us feel these works are so important ? |
| 16 | Often a family of bull , cow , and pup can be found quite close to the dunes and is most interesting to observe from a reasonable distance . |
| 17 | Many crustaceans , indeed , have done so — sand shrimps and beach hoppers stay quite close to the sea ; pill bugs and penny sows have colonised moist ground throughout the land . |
| 18 | Just before La Barre , the road for Biarritz bends to the left and you can drive peaceably into that still glamorous resort , with the racecourse , the pine trees and beyond them the sands on one side , and more pine trees , the little Lac de Chiberta and the best known of Biarritz 's golf-courses on the other — the Basque Coast is very good for golf , with four courses all quite close to one another ; this is the English influence once again , creating links out of some auspicious dunes . |
| 19 | Magee could make out two figures crouched on the steps near the top , quite close to the door of the church . |
| 20 | About this time a shaft had been started from the end of a 42 yds. long tunnel , Bouncy Level , driven into the vein from a point much higher up the boulder strewn fell-side quite close to the Crag . |
| 21 | There was a small bar quite close to the church and when they arrived Felipe urged her out . |
| 22 | I had an accident quite close to the gates and Jorge came to get me and helped me back . |
| 23 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | He gripped the wheel tightly and held his face quite close to the windscreen . |
| 25 | On the right the fence marking the boundary with Prince 's elbows in quite close to the fairway . |
| 26 | ‘ Stanley Mews , quite close to Westminster Abbey . ’ |
| 27 | Behind the HQ building , to the right of what Waters called the Paddock but before you got to the Wood , was a small black circle quite close to the boundary fence . |
| 28 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 29 | Even at 63 rpm the MM still comes out only to be 78 , quite close to Czerny . |
| 30 | Mamma was born in Mestre , quite close to here . |