Sentence examples for causing close to from inspiring English sources
Fires, caused by arson, had swarmed across the island, charring roughly a fifth of the park and causing close to $90 million worth of damage to this Unesco World Heritage site.
A hurricane that has lashed four nations for a week struck Mexico's gulf coast with 90-mile-an-hour winds today, after killing at least a dozen people, driving tens of thousands from their homes and causing close to a quarter of a billion dollars in damage, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Nearly three months after Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine signed a tenuous ceasefire, which has seen repeated violations causing close to 1,000 deaths and the destruction of thousands of homes and businesses since it began, the parties have agreed "in principle" to a renewed peace effort in the separatist-held Luhansk region.
21 Falls among the elderly is one of the most frequent causes of unintentional injuries, causing close to 90% of hip and wrist fractures 24, 25 and 60% of head injuries.
Longtime board member of the National Dance Institute, Himalayan Healthcare and the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, causes close to her heart.
That led to a flood that caused close to $2 billion in damage to downtown buildings as the water spread underground.
How ironic, then, that one of the best white champions of Civil Rights and causes close to the African-American community was shouted off the stage in Seattle this weekend.
Globally, inactivity causes close to 2 million deaths each year (Ezzati et al, 2002).
Therefore, the doses judged to be most likely to be safe and to cause close to 100% subjects being anesthetized (BIS < 50) were taken from those published data.
The disease causes close to five million deaths per year and accounted for global healthcare expenditures of 465 billion USD in 2011 alone.
Tuberculosis and leprosy are mycobacterial diseases affecting substantial parts Africa, the Americas, South-East Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific Regions and together cause close to a million deaths every year.
