Sentence examples for came rather close from inspiring English sources
Actually, Fuller came rather close to a major success in 1933, the year before his mother died.
In line with this, many of the comments in our study, where men and women were described as having different values and behaviour, came rather close to using gender stereotypes.
Still, the Review Group comes rather close to acknowledging privacy rights of foreigners.
In its painstaking description of thought's leaps and tics and swerves ("Also smoke in the dark they say get no pleasure"), "Ulysses" often comes rather close to life's actual tedium; since the heyday of modernism few major novelists have sought to emulate that book's exhaustive treatment of the ordinary mind at work.
even formulated a reconstruction of the Diodorean Master Argument which comes rather close to the classical argument which we shall present in the following.
In such statements as these, Aristotle comes rather close to saying that relationships based on profit or pleasure should not be called friendships at all.
It came rather late in the day.
The ending came rather sooner than expected.
If asked, most people can come up with a rather close definition for the term —probably something along the lines of: "a story about gods and goddesses that explains why things are what they are and happen as they do".
It's not so much that the stories are diatribes (though a few come close); rather that an assumed iniquity now attaches itself to the idea of the US as a political entity, more or less automatically.
