So far, there has been next to no progress.
(I had been next to her until she elbowed her way in front).
It would have been next to impossible to coordinate such a project without the Internet.
"Until recently, to talk of secession from the EU would have been next to absurd," the ECB paper noted.
"I can't believe I am wearing something that has been next to your lovely skin", she wrote.
Now, because the election date is known there has been next to no legislation of any consequence for months.
(AdaJarndyce) It has always been next to impossible for serious writers to earn a living by their books.
(An earlier restaurant, in intermittent operation for almost a decade, had been next to the pavilion rather than inside it).
Mr. Sheehan went 55 days without food and would probably have been next to die had the protest not collapsed under pressure from the prisoners' families.
"Ten years down the road, the progress in the war against terror has been next to nil," claimed Mr. Baig, a usually upbeat and optimistic politician.
Mr. Kadir's lawyer, Kafahni Nkrumah, asked the judge for a 15-year sentence, saying the detonation scheme would have been next to impossible to carry out.
