Sentence examples for founded close to from inspiring English sources

The university likes to boast that its alumni and faculty have founded close to forty thousand companies.

Founded close to the coast in 1523 by an envoy sent by the conquistador Hernán Cortés, Colima was later moved to its present location.

Founded close to the sea on the outskirts of West Aberthaw in 1925 by the Boys Clubb Movement, St Athan was a place for the poorest boys of the mining community to take a week's summer holiday, a chance to be children again.

"But mysteriously no other signs of life - such as pottery". Found close to Alikanas Bay the site was examined in situ by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece.

Found close to the sea floor, the bramble shark most commonly inhabits continental and insular shelves and slopes at depths of 400-900 m.

Alphabet's founding close to International Literacy Day was not intended, but it's a symbolic opportunity for those of us who have worked in the literacy space to raise an important issue for superpeople.

The steel worker in the ad, Joe Soptic, lost his job when a plant owned by Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mr. Romney co-founded, closed it in 2001.

Ehud Olmert, who succeeded Mr Sharon at the head of the party he founded, came tantalisingly close to clinching a deal on the West Bank.

The city was important in the national freedom movement; the Sevagram ashram (religious retreat) founded by Mohandas Gandhi close to Wardha was later the headquarters of Vinoba Bhave, a disciple of Gandhi.

Indeed, the recent dustup about supposedly fixed parliamentary elections was essentially a slanging-match between the Blairite pressure group Progress (largely funded by Lord Sainsbury, and founded by people close to such über-New Labour types as Peter Mandelson), and the trade union Unite, whose leader Len McCluskey has recently been heard bemoaning the power held by "Oxbridge Blairites".

Beyond the Hutterites, this approach can be applied to other isolated founder populations with limited immigration, for which there is reliable genealogical information since the founding and close to complete disease phenotyping in the relatively recent past, such as the Amish and the inhabitants of Norfolk Island (Macgregor et al. 2010; Hinckley et al. 2013).