Sentence examples for come close once from inspiring English sources

He'd come close once, with a woman.

We have come close once or twice.

Ms. St. Pierre, who has already come close once before to losing her coverage because she had reached the plan's maximum, says she does not know what she will do if the cap is reinstated.

Harry Redknapp will attempt to inject much-needed momentum into Tottenham Hotspur's relegation-haunted campaign by retaining the Carling Cup tomorrow after admitting the maligned competition has already come close once to wrecking the club's season.

From a technical director viewpoint it's making sure that we've got this seamless pathway that's producing players and that's hopefully going to give us sustainability at first-team level, so that we can regularly qualify or at least regularly compete to qualify, rather than what it previously was, which is qualify once every 60 years and come close once a decade".

Danny Hylton, having already come close once, scored a first-half penalty for the U's after Joe Jacobson's foul.

Diagnostic use of multi-locus genetic risk predictors is a long-term goal that might come closer once informed by environmental predictors.

He came close once, during the war.

That said, Anna Hansen, of The Modern Pantry, comes close: "Once I tried to make tamarind ice cream.

He came close once to doing a film of Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer, and in 1999 he did produce a picture about the great Ethiopian runner, Haile Gebrselassie, called Endurance.

He came close once, telling his small but enthusiastic audience that "nuclear power is much safer than it's ever been," his way into an argument that the long moratorium on building new nuclear plants must now end.