Example sentences of "perilously close [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although yesterday 's increase in rates intensified fears that the economy could come perilously close to recession next year , the instant judgement of most economists was that the worst would be avoided . |
| 2 | Panicked , angry and perilously close to tears , Isabel sprang for the door . |
| 3 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 4 | When Johnstone left Celtic to move south to Sheffield United , by his own confession , he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism . |
| 5 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 6 | The magazine , through his influence , became more regularized ; readers noted that something perilously close to marketing had intruded into its anarchy . |
| 7 | For Bradford Northern , this overwhelming defeat puts them perilously close to relegation with only two games remaining and now with a much inferior points scoring record compared with Salford with whom they are level . |
| 8 | Are you aware that you 're getting perilously close to slander ? |
| 9 | Would n't it come perilously close to desecration ? |
| 10 | Unknown to most people , he had also driven a Formula Two racing car belonging to world-champion racing driver Graham Hill around the track at Thruxton — and come perilously close to disaster . |