Sentence examples for close to exceeding from inspiring English sources

Yet most states are operating voting machines that are perilously close to exceeding their sell-by-date, Brennan has found.

Long Island's electricity demand came close to exceeding its supply yesterday, the Long Island Power Authority reported.

The NSA in 2006 came close to exceeding its power supply, which would have blown out its electrical infrastructure.

Many pious, ordinary citizens agree that performers such as Mr Youssef come close to exceeding the bounds of decency.

The second reason is that I've probably come close to exceeding my quota of Red Sox stories already, over the last few years.

He acknowledged that the amount of oil now being captured was close to exceeding the capacity of the BP processing ship that is on site.

Furthermore, in case any packet from the th SF is close to exceed its maximum delay the term is substituted by an urgency factor, which boosts the data transfer from the th SF [11].

For years climate reporting had two strands: climate science got more alarming as we got closer and closer to exceeding various warming thresholds, and climate diplomacy and public policy were a relatively unbroken saga of disappointment and delay.

We also found a higher proportion of small-bodied species in oil palm, possibly because maximum temperatures in this habitat come closer to exceeding the thermoregulatory tolerance of larger-bodied species, again leading to reduced survival (Nichols et al., 2013).

Intensities close to or exceeding the RIA requirements have been produced for those few test beams.

Companies in the space raised more than $200 million last year, according to Crunchbase data, continuing a multi-year run of VC funding totals close to or exceeding that level.  .