Sentence examples for close the team from inspiring English sources

Because the combine gave the Jets their first opportunity to measure the collegians up close, the team made no significant free-agent moves last week.

A loss to the Lakers in the N.B.A. finals proved how close the team was to a championship, but dissatisfied with the runner-up result, Otis Smith, Orlando's general manager, initiated a major shake-up.

His account of landing the lunar module on the Sea of Tranquillity on July 20th 1969, and how close the team came to aborting the mission, remains a great tale.

Now that the Games are over, Dame Kelly Holmes, the president of Commonwealth Games England, has revealed just how close the team were to pulling out of the competition.

As for the Ivies, Smith downplayed the preseason media poll in which the Lions were picked to finish seventh, saying, "You could throw a blanket over teams 2 through 7, they're really that close". The team everyone will be chasing is expected to be Harvard, last year's co-champion, which received 16 of 17 first-place votes from the media panel.

Since the round's close, the team has grown from the three co-founders (Dowling, Chris Nolet and Diesel Laws) to six.

The decision to close the team comes after a public inquiry exposed the behaviour of a human rights lawyer in charge of many of the abuse allegation cases.

The first three games of the series were razor's-edge close, the teams tied or separated by one goal for 96 percent of the time.

Early in the 2006-7 sheson, she also closed the team's locker room.

The iInsolvency specialists Smith & Williamson closed the team factory in Leafield, Oxfordshire, on Thursday.

With JFK airport closed, the team trickled into the studio regardless.