Sentence examples for be close to something from inspiring English sources

Eighteen years is a long time to be close to something".

The big city also allowed him to be close to something else that had captured his imagination: the stock market.

I think [the autograph hunting] was about me wanting to be close to something that I didn't know how to be close to.

Aside from the exciting drama of the game itself, following along every day is a source of stability and order; it satisfies the intense childhood longing to be close to something.

And this is why, when PC Billy Tyler is asked to go and stand guard over her body, the night before it is cremated, his wife, Sue, begs him to refuse: "It's not healthy to be close to something like that.

Could the world be close to something similar in Iran.

"I didn't have a specific plan I just wanted to be closer to something that felt really exciting.

For example, if conspecific A+B form a clade for a given gene and then there is a transfer between B+C, B+C will now show the affinity, but A will not now be closer to something else.

It amounts to this: Very early in his life, he was close to something that transformed the world, assisting Mark Zuckerberg and others in the creation of Facebook.

"Almost wherever you are in the house you're close to something that's a garden," says Koontz, a spry and softly spoken 65-year-old.

Partly because he's a dutiful, long-serving, long-suffering policeman, and partly because he knows that, in many ways, he is close to something like that.