Example sentences of "something close [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood . |
| 6 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |