Sentence examples for came relatively close from inspiring English sources

And he came relatively close to securing a breakthrough deal in 2000 at the Camp David Summit, but compromise ultimately proved elusive.

Not paying our debt obligations would still be a very bad thing for both financial markets and the economy overall, as we saw when the federal government came relatively close to defaulting in summer 2011.

Scholz's star came relatively close, but the binary system (the red dwarf and its brown dwarf companion) has a low mass and it was speeding by.

That they came relatively close owed much to a spirited late 31 off 18 balls by Ravi Bopara and a six off the final ball of the day from Tim Bresnan when the match - and England's chances of reaching the last four - had already gone.

Lynn: We came relatively close to potentially having a Mormon president this past election cycle.

Aided by "independent" funding from neocon hard-liners, Griffin came relatively close to defeating Jones, but lost the May primary with 44percentt of the vote to Jones' 53 percent.

Not this time, as Li comes, relatively, close to the net for the kill.

But if you don't need state-of-the-art features like Bluetooth, FireWire 800, and 802.11g wireless, some rivals come relatively close.

It remains a matter of historical interest how so seriously flawed a person could come relatively close to the Presidency.

A section devoted to investments in space marvels at new opportunities in asteroid mining, noting that Knight Frank has published a list of "asteroids to watch" to confirm the value of "key space rocks that will be coming (relatively) close to Earth soon".

In terms of numbers the country has consequently come relatively close to its targets of 240,000 and 342,200 people on treatment by 2012 and 2020.