Sentence examples for close to a breakthrough from inspiring English sources
I think we're close to a breakthrough.
But he insisted he was close to a breakthrough.
Instead, the teams that are close to a breakthrough remain on the doorstep.
Three times in the space of 10 second-half minutes Bosnia came close to a breakthrough.
We're in huddles all day - I think we are close to a breakthrough.
Her coach, Thomas Hogstedt, warned before the match that Li, 27, was close to a breakthrough in a major tournament.
After a solid nine years of failure and two straight 7-9 seasons, they've never been closer to a breakthrough, he's got them right on the verge.
A motorcyclist sought in connection with the murders of three members of a British family in the French Alps has been ruled out of the inquiry, leaving police no closer to a breakthrough more than two years after the killings.
Indeed Sevilla, who were playing English opposition for the first time, came closest to a breakthrough in the first half when Luis Fabiano, having deftly lifted the ball over the head of Tal Ben Haim, shot an angled drive off the upright.
Sunderland soon settled down, however, and created the bulk of the early chances, with Thomas Butler closest to a breakthrough when he whipped in a low cross which outwitted Derby's defence and rebounded off the far post.
