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Discover LudwigThe phrase "close to start" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means something is near the beginning or initial stage of something else. Example: "The new employee is still in the training phase, but she is already close to start her first project."
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Unless the vote is astonishingly close to start with, half a dozen seats here or there just aren't going to matter.
Re "For Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder" (May 2), about the use of sugar versus high-fructose corn syrup in foods: It seems that whenever we come close to start addressing the major public health challenge of the 21st century, excess body weight, we get sidetracked.
We are excited about joining forces with Google, and look forward to getting our teams together after close to start working on innovative new ways to make travel search easier.
Although I definitely acknowledge that the race should have never ended up so close to start with, it also showed that our political system needs to be reformed.
Primers were selected as close to start or stop codons as possible.
If she is a classmate or someone you are not very close to start with a regular "Hello".
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It also has 12 drugs in or close to starting clinical trials.
He comes close to starting another affair with Anne's slighted sister, Mary Boleyn.
At this point, last year's second-round pick, Vladimir Ducasse, doesn't appear close to starting at left guard.
Three years later, after many infertility procedures and one miscarriage, we are finally close to starting that family, with twins.
This week, it has been cited repeatedly, as the Administration seems close to starting more military commissions in Guantánamo.
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