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Flaherty's Nanook of the North is actually pretty close to "mockumentaries" like Spinal Tap, he says.

Its 45%-31%-10% finding was actually pretty close to the recent average scores of 42%-32%-1142%-32%-1142%-32%-11%

"That would require us to understand and come up with ways to activate those sensors in your hand, but we're actually pretty close to doing that," Goldreich says.

These protagonists' supposedly relatable flaws were the exceptions that proved the rule: they were actually pretty close to attaining the unattainable holy trinity of perfect body, perfect job, perfect man.

(It's actually pretty close to what Constantine says in "The Seagull," and it feels hopelessly out of date in 2004.) Your average play is "like holy communion," he says.

That would place his net worth at about a billion dollars, which is actually pretty close to the $1.15 billion figure cited as his minimum net worth in an analysis, by Tim Mullaney of CNBC, of a financial-disclosure form released by the Federal Election Commission last week.

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For a man who walked on water in surfing circles, stand-up paddling actually comes pretty close.

Although the Labour government quietly abandoned that target last year, the latest numbers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills show that they actually came pretty close to meeting it: by 2009, university participation rates among 17- to 30-year-olds had risen to 45%.

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That's a steal compared to the decidedly nutty estimated value of $1 million listed on the site, but the auction's still got under a week left, and past models have actually gotten pretty close to the 1 million mark.

That's a steal compared to the decidedly nutty estimated value of $1 million listed on the site, but the auction's still got under a week left, and past models have actually gotten pretty close to the 1 million mark.

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