Sentence examples for close to flat from inspiring English sources

After that, costs are close to flat.

And they do it all close to flat out for seven minutes.

Edit by Michael Lam on February 10 , 2016 Recent observations suggest that the Universe is very close to flat.

The upper bound solutions are found to be very close to flat indentation solutions available for cohesive-frictional materials.

Present-day thinking is that the universe is very close to flat (Euclidean) in its geometry, which implies that it is close to critical density.

I have no hang-ups about taking a drink so early in the day, but to be that close to flat at such a primitive hour felt obscene.

There doesn't appear to be anything faint-hearted about Barack Obama's plans to stimulate the economy, which hasn't come this close to flat-lining since the 1930s.

On the other side of the line, to the west and south, are Iraqi regular-army troops sent by the central government in Baghdad to stop ancient cities along the Tigris river falling into what it fears may become a purely Kurdish sphere.The two forces have come close to flat-out fighting several times, usually outside the cities where commanders act off their own bat.

The heart of what is left of American manufacturing was close to flat-lining.

But that doesn't explain why sex attacks spiked between this April and May when they were closer to flat during the same stretch a year ago.

Its orbital characteristics are substantially different from those of the planets, which follow nearly circular orbits around the Sun close to a flat reference plane called the ecliptic.