Sentence examples for close to as from inspiring English sources

It's hard to imagine that we have it even close to as bad as that.

It is useful to look at his work close to, as well as from a distance.

It was pretty close to as good as it gets for an adventurous pop performance.

"They're producing very close to as much oil as they can produce".

"Ariel played a near-perfect game against Ni Xia Lian, close to as good as she can possibly play," said Gheorghe, a Romanian who played professionally in Europe.

"It was a great week," she said, "but I definitely didn't play anywhere close to as well as what I can".

And make no mistake: there are some excellent games on Android tablet, just nowhere close to as many as on the iPad.

He will play his fifth game of 2015 against the Raiders on Saturday afternoon and it will be close to as fit as he has been all year.

"I think I've gotten back to the point where I probably work, if not as hard, close to as hard," he added.

In winter, when less moisture is available in the atmosphere, it's close to as much as the sky can squeeze out in 24 hours.

A.J. Burnett is not pitching anywhere close to as bad as people reflect and they got him pulled out of the rotation and I just think it's a stupid reaction".