Sentence examples for be close before from inspiring English sources

A deal was rumoured to be close before the Liberal government fell in November.

Williams's last stand came in the ninth game of that second set, a 14-point drama in which she successfully staved off three break points, snorting high-decibel defiance as she realised the end may be close, before succumbing to the fourth when, symbolically, she slipped to the ground as she chased a typically forthright Sharapova return.

We were close before and we're close now, but I can't replace Joe".

"We've done some good work but we've been close before and polio has bounced back.

"We've been close before, but this year we have the team to get it done," Feminis said.

"I'd been close before, so I didn't feel safe until two years later when the book was on the shelf".

"But as I've always said, the structure of the race is such that it was close before and it's close now".

"I've been close before, but I've never gotten the home run.

The Franzheimer became the first Broadway theatre to be closed before it opened.

For the unlucky managers, the fund may be closed before their luck turns.

Schools would be closed before the start of the 2011-12 school year, he said.