Sentence examples for close to containing from inspiring English sources
Elsewhere in the West, the National Interagency Fire Center said firefighters were close to containing most of the largest wildfires.
West Ham never came close to containing him, for all that there was a sloppiness to City's first two goals which betrayed the fragility of local confidence.
(Of the second painting, Spurling writes, "Digging this picture out of his father's attic ten years later, Matisse said it came so close to containing everything he had done since then that it hardly seemed worth having gone on painting". Twenty years later he had the same reaction to it, only stronger).
Although the extra pellets that we prepared and assayed were all very close to containing 0.02 μg LT-B (0.0226, 0.0184, and 0.0195 μg), perfect homogenous mixes are not practical using ground maize and it is not inconceivable that one or more of the experimental pellets may have been more variable in LT-B content.
(AP) — Firefighters said Saturday that they were getting closer to containing a 53-square-mile wildfire that had destroyed more than 20 houses in the mountains outside Yosemite National Park.
U.S. air and naval bases in allied countries also bring the United States a continent closer to contain Russia in Eastern Europe and confront terrorist threats in the Middle East and South Asia.
They said the blast's intensity was magnified because the doors and windows of Sbarro, part of a New York-based chain, were closed to contain the air conditioning.
"So if you have a flight and you are not complying with the rules, we will not allow you to board".. Most border crossings in Liberia have been closed to contain the outbreak and affected communities are being quarantined.
Harris wrote a letter to someone close to him containing lyrics to a new song, which he said he planned to record once he was released.
Notice, though, that the chapters from which the "good" laws come are disturbingly close to those containing the "bad" ones.
But the blaze was close to being contained.
