Sentence examples similar to a close to correct from inspiring English sources

For example, the average guess of 100 people about the weight of a cow or the number of rice grains in a jar is usually close to correct, even if most of the guesses are far from the mark.

Contrary to initial appearance, then, the naïve minimalization accounts found in most existing analyses of donkey sentences within a possibilistic situation semantics are close to correct (but see section 9 for discussion of another potentially problematic case, example (61)).

The first analysis (A) we performed is as close to correct as we think is possible.

If the war casualty figures published in the highly respected medical journal The Lancet are even close to correct, we must begin our midcourse correction today.

If, however, Ks values presented in Figure 4(A) and the silent mutation rate are close to correct, the corresponding duplication timeframe is predicted to be 300 500 Myr.

But if the agency's estimate of the number of U.S. taxpayer-owned offshore accounts is even close to correct, that number of prosecutions is a drop in the bucket.

The classifier provides initial contours which are close to correct boundaries for three coupled level sets driven by a proposed pathologically variational modeling which greatly accelerates the level set segmentation.

IF these estimates are even modestly close to correct, there are hundreds of companies that engaged in options backdating but whose identities are not yet public.

He noted that the quotes were "close to correct" but not exact.

That may happen in 2016 if EIA's forecast shown in Figure 8 is close to correct.

And only occasionally, does anybody in the corporate mainstream media get the ACORN "voter fraud" fairy tale close to correct.