Example sentences of "[is] anywhere near " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think you could do as well , get cracking — if your game 's anywhere near as bostin' as this one , you could find fame and fortune as a Commodore Force Megastar ! |
| 2 | None of the Japanese firms is anywhere near its goal ; they make only one or two models at each plant , which is too few . |
| 3 | If you take over a farm with poor fences , you will probably feel obliged to stock it before your fencing programme is anywhere near complete . |
| 4 | ‘ If that report is anywhere near accurate , they could knock anything we have at present clear out of the sky . |
| 5 | If this approach is anywhere near correct , we should expect a correlation between the class of people who are prohibited as sexual partners and the likelihood that they will be familiar or extremely novel ( see Fig. 24.6 ) . |
| 6 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 7 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 8 | Not that Gillian is anywhere near this category . |
| 9 | Bunyard 's accolade referred to a perfectly ripe Cox , left on its tree until October and not snatched off before it is anywhere near maturity , as so many commercially grown apples were later treated . |
| 10 | It is insignificant for all satellites because the residual precession is smaller the smaller the mass of the primary body , and no planet is anywhere near as massive as the Sun . |
| 11 | If the above argument is anywhere near correct then I should double that to find the true cost . |
| 12 | If this is anywhere near the true figure , would n't it be nice if Mr Dobson made a substantial donation to help fund treatment for the three-year-old handicapped boy , say £2,500 , plus another £2,500 for the echocardiograph appeal ? |
| 13 | A COSLA senior official said yesterday : ‘ We are still not convinced that the report is anywhere near a reasonable basis for changing the local government structure . ’ |