Sentence examples for close to cracking from inspiring English sources

Or come awfully close to cracking the regime and caused waves of defections".

Researchers at Oxford University think they are close to cracking the world's oldest undeciphered writing system.

But it doesn't come close to cracking the mystery, or explaining the aura.

In New York, Jeter does not come close to cracking the city's 10 most popular dog names.

Graysmith comes very close to cracking the case, but, in the end, proof falls maddeningly out of his grasp.

I ask him if there are developers who are getting close to cracking the other problems we've discussed.

The S.U.V. is, after all, the biggest windfall ever to land in American carmakers' laps: cheap to make, close to crack cocaine in profitability, the darling of the zeitgeist now eclipsing Detroit's own passenger cars in sales (4.7 million in 2001 alone).

These measurements elucidate the origin of the inhomogeneous hardening and the size dependent macroscopic response close to crack tip.

So, are we any closer to cracking the code?

With each new bit of information, Coster-Mullen was edging closer to cracking the code — "like a safecracker listening to those little clicks," as he put it.

But the sad truth is that nothing that was announced in Seattle suggests that they are any closer to cracking the case than they were sixteen years ago.