Sentence examples for close compared from inspiring English sources

That would be a closer race — if not exactly close — compared to 2008.

Mr. Cramer's fund was up 34percentt for the year, through Friday's close, compared with the 9.8percentt decline of the S.& P. 500.

Mr. Bruno, the state's top Republican, has built a relationship with organized labor that is unusually close compared with those of other leaders of his party.

We can notice that the MSE of sets for MicaZ and Iris were close compared to the others sets.

The S&P 500's valuation was about 15.4 times expected earnings as of Wednesday's close, compared to around 17 for much of 2015, according to the most recent available Thomson Reuters StarMine data.

Mike Brown and his team favored the hypothesis that Sedna was lifted into its current orbit by a star from the Sun's birth cluster, arguing that Sedna's aphelion of about 1,000 AU, which is relatively close compared to those of long-period comets, is not distant enough to be affected by passing stars at their current distances from the Sun.

So far this year, 77 lenders have been closed, compared with 25 in 2008.

As the T. Rex closer compared himself to Rivera, the one-pitch legend with the cut fastball, he laughed.

Highland Feeders had about 25,000 cattle in its feedlots when the border was closed, compared to the normal 35,000 at that time of year.

The hospital was also inefficient; it had about 11.5 workers per bed at the time it was closed, compared with the statewide average of 4 per bed, said James Lott, the executive vice president of the Hospital Association of Southern California.

But a trend toward less radical forms of genital cutting has taken hold in some countries, including Djibouti, where 83 percent of women in their late 40s report being infibulated — sewn closed — compared with 42 percent of 15- to 19-year-olds.