Example sentences of "come [adv] near to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then if Mr Major takes a cool look at why Mrs Thatcher was overthrown , why he became Prime Minister in 1990 , and why he came so near to defeat in 1992 , he will see a cycle of excessive boom , high inflation and then prolonged recession . |
| 2 | The wartime earnings of most skilled shipyard workers , for example , would have exceeded £60 a year , and with the Admiralty deducting at source and paying over to the Treasury , yields came much nearer to expectation . |
| 3 | It came as near to cattiness as Grenfell could , and gently brought the house down . |
| 4 | Hanley was injured and so Garry led the side — ‘ the proudest moment in my career ’ — and the Lions came as near to victory as any team has ever done Down Under . |
| 5 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 6 | Through ceaseless activity and a triumph of will-power , she had by 1987 come as near to success as was possible for one , self-sufficient human being . |