Sentence examples for close to surpassing from inspiring English sources

Indonesia, with 39 deaths, is close to surpassing Vietnam as the hardest-hit country with 42.

Coal will come close to surpassing oil as the world's top energy source by 2017, the International Energy Agency predicts.

The move opened the possibility of a shift in antinarcotics strategy in Peru, which is close to surpassing Colombia as the world's leading coca producer.

Trump's popular vote tally is more than all Republican presidential candidates other than George W. Bush in 2004, and he's coming close to surpassing Bush.

The NBC reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice" topped CBS and came close to surpassing Fox in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic, posting gains of 13percentt over the week before.

On some nights recently, Mr. Olbermann has even come tantalizingly close to surpassing the ratings of the host he describes as his nemesis, Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, at least among viewers ages 25 to 54, which is the demographic cable news advertisers prefer.

South African Breweries agreed to buy the Miller Brewing Company from Philip Morris for $3.6 billion in stock, moving a step closer to surpassing Anheuser-Busch as the world's largest brewer.

South African Breweries agreed today to buy the Miller Brewing Company from the Philip Morris Companies for $3.6 billion in stock, moving a step closer to surpassing Anheuser-Busch as the world's largest brewer, which analysts see as its ultimate goal.

"If we continue to get or stay below normal for rainfall, and if the level continues to drop, we could even get close to or surpass the record low level on the river," said Jim Kramper, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

Analysts have said corporate bankruptcies could top 20,000 next year, coming close to or even surpassing the postwar record of 20,841 in 1984.

A universal data bus carrying everything that is important now to the entire world, with ads every n Tweets would probably have revenues close to and eventually surpassing web-search revenues.