Sentence examples for be close to offering from inspiring English sources

The article quoted unnamed sources saying that buyout firms might be close to offering $1.7 billion for Saks.

Nasa has given an indication of the companies it thinks may be closest to offering commercial systems to carry American astronauts into space.

After meeting Theresa May in Downing Street yesterday, Manfred Weber, the powerful German MEP, indicated that the UK was close to offering extra money.

But in July and again in August, a bank employee told her not to send a payment because the bank was close to offering her a new repayment plan.

The region is close to offering such marriages full support; Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to let gay couples marry in 2004, and Connecticut began allowing same-sex marriage last fall.

In May, for instance, Glenn A. Britt, the chief executive of Time Warner Cable, said at an industry conference that his company was close to offering equipment that would allow consumers to receive Web content on their televisions through cable boxes.

None of the companys peers are close to offering anything comparable online.

In some ways it is out of his hands once he has picked the team but this is a way he can be close to them, offering advice, making tactical changes.

What this means is that we are very close to offering cars that operate without driver input for extended periods of time.

Other ISPs are getting close to offering similar speeds, thanks to Docsis 3.0, but some people are wondering: will people even need that sort of speed, and if so, then for what?

Assembly Democrats say they are not close to offering even a rough proposal.