Example sentences of "anything close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've not had anything close to twelve years like it , since , I can tell you ! |
| 2 | But not for anything close to the same price . |
| 3 | The BPIF 's director of employment affairs Andy Brown said : ‘ We have had no indication that the GPMU is prepared to settle at anything close to our final offer . ’ |
| 4 | The defeat of the economic stimulus package proposed by US President Bill Clinton means that the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) is unlikely to receive anything close to its 1994 budget request . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One is where there is no intention to fund for anything close to maximum tax-approved benefits at the moment . |