Example sentences of "close [prep] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the Ayodhya issue continued to cause serious unrest during late 1990 , with close to a thousand people being killed in communal violence across the country . |
| 2 | It 's based on my experience of presenting thousands of them in close to a hundred countries around the world , under a wide variety of conditions . |
| 3 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 4 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
| 5 | Matra-Hachette of France and British Aerospace said they were close to a 50-50 merger of their missile businesses . |