Example sentences of "[indef pn] close to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 3 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 4 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 5 | 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 . |