Example sentences of "come close to [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 2 | I found the problems in Bolo 's Adventures part 2 just as hard if not harder , although I ca n't really tell because I have n't even come close to finishing part 1 . |
| 3 | But after Diadora League Kingstonian came close to upsetting Division One Peterborough , the message from Posh manager Turner was : ‘ Chris does himself no favours by being so vocal . |
| 4 | Monaghan came close to snatching victory but this would have been rough justice on Cavan who showed flair and fluency in the first half before fading . |
| 5 | Between 1903 and 1912 local activists prevented the outright split in the party to which émigré divisions were leading , Lenin himself faced powerful challenges from within the Bolshevik faction , notably from Bogdanov , and he came close to losing control altogether . |
| 6 | The welfare state never came close to eliminating poverty . |
| 7 | The UltraNet RS/6000 Network Processor is claimed to deliver effective application performance in excess of four times that of a standard block multiplexer mainframe channel , and an order of magnitude faster than other RS/6000 network connections such as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI — in other words it runs at 1Gbps or over 100Mbytes per second , coming close to matching network bandwidth with computer bandwidth . |
| 8 | Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine . |