Example sentences of "much closer to home " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same tendency to compromise showed itself in a facet of internal policy much closer to home , one whose violent impact threatened life and property on the British mainland herself . |
| 2 | Much closer to home , sightings of dolphins and porpoises around British coastal waters are rapidly decreasing , although 12 species are regularly seen . |
| 3 | Anyway , there are bogeymen much closer to home : true Brits who drink too much lager and then get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 4 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 5 | Water shortages can occur much closer to home . |
| 6 | An understanding monarch reflected that disobedient and violent subjects were also to be found much closer to home . |
| 7 | Another example , much closer to home , relates to the persecution of witches in pre-industrial Britain . |
| 8 | The keynote for the last years of Offa , however , is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court . |
| 9 | But this shift of emphasis was not due to any direct influence from the Formalists whom , as I have said , the New Critics did not know ; it was due to the influence of a figure much closer to home , the poet T.S . |
| 10 | It was n't the truth awaiting her at the château that she feared , but one much closer to home . |
| 11 | Much closer to home for me , we listened to the hon. Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) , who represents and lives in the Blackbird Leys part of Oxford . |
| 12 | EVER thought what would happen if your bike broke down in Donegal , Dingle , or Dorset , let alone much closer to home ? |