Sentence examples for close to satisfactory from inspiring English sources

Having determined that the scores at her local elementary school weren't close to satisfactory, Ms. Rothman had her 4-year-old daughter tested for kindergarten at Hunter College Elementary, but that didn't work out.

Emotional functioning and energy/fatigue had scores that were close to satisfactory.

For a cut point of 11, which is very close to "satisfactory" performance in all categories (12 points) the effect of interview admission was not significant (OR 0.65, CI95 0.34-1.22, p = 0.175) whereas sex was, (0.39, CI95 0.21-0.74, p = 0.004).

We know that he served a tour in Iraq, which has to put a strain on anyone's mental health, and the Army says he had trouble "reintegrating," but that's not even close to a satisfactory explanation.

It's built a community too big to perfectly police, and accepting that is the first step to getting closer to satisfactory protection.

Satisfactory recoveries above 80%, except for MI (mean values close to 60%), were obtained.

But when Thrift was asked if the Yankees' offer was close to being satisfactory, he said: "Far, yes.

"I'm in the process of writing to the chief executive of the hospital as we haven't had anything that's anywhere close to a satisfactory answer to outstanding issues that need to be highlighted.

I like to imagine the moment of sheer panic the shit-doer had to experience post-shit when they realised that the plane toilet was ill-equipped to mop up what they had done to anything close to a satisfactory level.

I like to imagine the moment of sheer panic the shit-doer had to experience post-shit when they realized that the plane toilet was ill-equipped to mop up what they had done to anything close to a satisfactory level.

Cell adhesion ratio ranked from excellent (close to 100%) to satisfactory (around 50%) in the order PCL/GEL > CS/GEL > CS/PCL/GEL > CS/PCL.