Sentence examples for closer in terms from inspiring English sources

Dan Coats, the director of National Intelligence, said, "The decision time is becoming ever closer in terms of how we respond" to North Korea's weapons development.

In the UK, US and across the western world, the centre left and centre right grew ever closer in terms of basic economic policy and commitment to individual rights-based language.

Which may sound like a posh way of saying that it is likely to be closer – in terms of seats if not votes – but the reasons why are interesting.

Men's matches tend to be closer in terms of games won by the loser, most likely because of the ease with which more male players are able to hold serve, and the greater number of games guaranteed in the match.

"Sisterland" may start out sounding like a sort of cloying Alice Hoffman novel, full of stage-managed whimsy, but it actually ends up being a lot closer, in terms of emotional chiaroscuro, to two classics about pairs of sisters, "The Old Wives' Tale" by Arnold Bennett and "The Easter Parade" by Richard Yates.

And many of those guys at least were a lot closer in terms of timing.

We are very close in terms of level, I believe.

In recent years they have been close in terms of winning the title.

But none come close in terms of longevity, lore and collection of irony.

"So I would argue case closed, in terms of their negativity," he said.

The biggest CD is nowhere close in terms of volume let alone revenue".