"When two rituals fall close together, one always suffers.
Her dancers learn first to fall close to the ground.
O merciful ether cone, fall close around this tortured head.
The IWA feared it could fall close to 30% in Wales.
The Institute of Welsh Affairs predicts the number of women AMs will fall close to 30% this year.
"Well, some of the big fundamentalist churches in the South would fall close — dangerously close — to the Jim Jones end of the spectrum.
If oil prices rise much further, or something else causes job growth to fall close to 100,000, he becomes the underdog.
Officials in Washington put holds on refugees who have similar names and dates of birth that fall close to those of terrorist suspects on file.
Predictions also show that unemployment will fall close to 6% by 2015 and inflation will remain close to its 2% target.
Charge your Volt in Connecticut, with its nearly 19-cent average rate, and the Volt's running costs fall close to those of a Prius or Honda Civic Hybrid, raising skepticism over the Volt's considerably higher price.
When the Dow Jones Industrial Average was rising through 2007, for example, "rise," "fall," "close" and "gain" were the most popular verbs, peaking the week of Oct. 12, after which the crash began.
