Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 2 | And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 3 | The Avon , Severn and Trent are all likely to feature in Denis ' matches for the rest of the season , although he is likely to stay away from events close to home where the meat has become the number one bait . |
| 4 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 5 | A project now in progress close to Explorers , which hoped to rekindle pride in the old customs , language and traditional knowledge of the native Infierno community , was Ametra 2001 . |
| 6 | In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation . |
| 7 | The Square of Pegasus is high in the north , with two of its stars pointing upward to Fomalhaut close to the zenith . |
| 8 | Production was highest in August , decreasing in late autumn to low winter and spring levels ; rates were quoted as ‘ quite high ’ even in temperatures close to freezing point . |