Sentence examples for close to although from inspiring English sources

The values provided by the former formula were quite close to (although always lower than) the actual resistance to punching shear of CFST K-joints.

Following Pushkin, whom he idolised and became close to (although letters suggest their affections were not commensurate), these stories are rich in folk idioms.

For grain corner nucleation it is found that both the kinetics and the resulting grain size distribution are very close to the corresponding results for randomly distributed sites, which demonstrates that grain boundary corners in two-dimensional grain structures are close to, although not completely, randomly distributed.

XMRV is genetically close to, although differentiable from, MLV.

Based on MLST analysis of seven housekeeping genes, type V strains are located phylogenetically close to, although distinct from, L. reuteri strains of human/avian origin type VI, whereas those from type IV fall between human and rodent isolates of types II and III, respectively [ 14].

"He is close to Jeremy Hunt, although that is not the boast it once was".

The story scuds along, veering close to pastiche, although the luscious prose is precisely steered.

Holmgren's spontaneous suggestion took White by surprise, according to people close to him, although White eventually agreed with Holmgren.

Formally, in these poems she is very close to Louis MacNeice, although MacNeice's natural tableaux were entirely secular in import.

Five years ago, the two companies came close to merging, although each company has a different recollection of what happened.

Mark S. Hoebee's direction is close to flawless, although Nana (Casey Garvin in a dog suit) doesn't get much to do.