Sentence examples for close to standing from inspiring English sources

Done properly, it should be as close to standing in the batter's box and trying to hit a professional curveball as most of us will ever come.

That's right — we were pretty close to standing outside, waiting for that Times Square ball to drop, in much more temperate air.

But Europe has never got remotely close to standing on its own feet militarily since 1945, even French attempts at breakouts (from de Gaulle onward) have been more political cosmetics – and comic – than serious.

Tebbit came close to standing for the leadership once his heroine had reluctantly stepped down, but feared losing to Michael Heseltine and splitting the party, so he backed John Major as a baggage-free rightwinger.

He came very close to standing last time, but in the end decided not to for family reasons – he remarried in 2013 following the death of his first wife from cancer three years earlier, and he and his second wife have a young daughter, as well as two children by his first marriage.

One unnamed Tory MP and former cabinet member told the BBC he "must be close to standing down" as Speaker, while another said his remarks had gone "way beyond what is acceptable".

It's the closest thing to standing on the surface of the Red Planet.

There was a 4- to 5-fold increase in the size of the sway area in the AN group when standing on foam with eyes closed, compared to standing on a steady surface with eyes open (see Figure 1).

I came very close to not standing up again".

There are, famously, stark photographs of Duncan Smith close to tears standing outside a dilapidated block of flats, apparently experiencing a conversion to modern conservatism.

The ground reaction force moves closer to the standing leg, x1 ≠ x2.