Sentence examples for fairly close to zero from inspiring English sources

The number of dogs that reliably kept the beat was fairly close to zero.

And customers can get a top-of-the line smartphone — or fairly close to one — with or without a contract.

Fortunately, thanks to a happy confluence of geography, climate and culture, most whiskey distilleries in Scotland where it's spelled "whisky," which is derived from the Gaelic word uisgebeatha, meaning "water of life"–are located fairly close to one another.

The CEOVs for inter-examiner variability between left, right and trial 1, trial 2 were both fairly close to one.

If you do not actually shop on those days, it's OK, just so long as you shop fairly close to one of them.

We initially set four traps near some rocks fairly close to shore and six more about a mile out.

Establishment support is certainly not a sufficient quality for a candidate to win his nomination — otherwise the campaigns of Tim Pawlenty, Fred Thompson and Phil Gramm would have gone further — but it may be fairly close to being a necessary one.

The only exception is Kenya, where the high estimate of the total number of condoms used based on the 1998 Kenya DHS is fairly close to the number distributed (10.7 million vs. 11.8 million).

The reason is because they are fairly close to death and it is one less person to deal with.

It predicted that 48.8 percent of voters would vote in support of same-sex marriage on average among the five states, fairly close to the actual figure of 50.1 percent.

Mr. Obama is also polling fairly close to his 2008 levels in Minnesota and Pennsylvania, two states that Mr. Romney has not contested as vigorously as John McCain did four years ago.