Sentence examples for close three times from inspiring English sources

The Huskies never regained it, although they did get close three times in the final five minutes.

It is certainly more promising for him that he came close three times in 2012, which was a departure from his middling performances in 2010 and 2011.

The hosts went close three times before the interval and it was encouraging for Mourinho that the Rooney-Ibrahimovic partnership were responsible for two of them.

But Bruce's men looked the more confident with Jiri Jarosik going close three times early on, although he didn't force a save from Thomas Myhre with any of his long-range efforts.

Congress came close three times to banning the sale of meat from downer cows -- ones that are too sick or hurt to amble into slaughterhouses -- only to see the industry's allies block each of the bills at the last moment.

But in a clearly-coded message to Lippi, he added: "It's not easy to come on the pitch, for [the last] 20 minutes and to score the decisive goal, as well as to go close three times, as I did on Tuesday".

Kacaniklic might have doubled the home side's lead moments later with an angled drive that bounced just to the right of goal, before Rotherham were into their stride and went close four times in quick succession.

Now we're both in one "We came close five times in the 1980's and we were in more playoff games in the 1980's than any other team in the National Football League.

"But this one's probably the toughest for me, because at 43 and coming so close five times, it would have changed the way I look at this tournament altogether and the way I would have looked at my record.

"It's like facing a closer three times," Teixeira said.

"Our club was closed three times in Soviet times," said a Smolensk bard, Aleksandr Makarenkov, who recalls having to get the censor's approval for songs to be performed at festivals.