Sentence examples for approached the levels of from inspiring English sources

With the decline of farm prices that began in 1976, costs to taxpayers and consumers again approached the levels of the early 1970s.

The extreme volatility of 2011 began only a few weeks ago, and so far it has not approached the levels of 1987 or 2010.

Though values for condos have not approached the levels of those in sister neighborhoods across the river in Manhattan, it's not uncommon to pay more than $700 a square foot in Long Island City.

By day 10 they approached the levels of the PBS group (only 1.4-fold less than the PBS group, ns), and by day 13 they were the same.

For example, in GDS531, the signal intensities recorded from FOSB, FOS, DUSP1, NR4A2, EGR1 and RGS1 approached the levels of GAPDH (Supplementary Table 4).

At some moments, Ahmet's recitation approached the level of song.

And there was, beyond the nervy displays of satirical hostility, a dimension of goofy absurdism that sometimes (more in "Borat" than in "Brüno") approached the level of sublimity.

In Sierra Leone, a small nation inundated with NGOs, the culture has approached the level of parody.

In his view, it approached the level of the notorious Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States, in 1944, which upheld the government's internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War.

The destruction caused by the fighting certainly approached the level of damage wrought during the American assault on Falluja last April, when the Marines began a huge operation after four American contract employees were killed and their bodies mutilated.

Though lower-level defections have been reported for weeks, nothing has approached the level of Monday's bloodshed in Jisr al-Shoughour.