The phrase "getting even close" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a misphrasing of "getting anywhere close" or "getting even close to."
Example: "I thought I could finish the project in a day, but I wasn't getting even close to my goal."
Alternatives: "getting anywhere near" or "coming close to."
The United States' second military intervention in Libya in five years has underscored the challenge that the Obama administration has faced getting even close NATO allies such as Italy to open their bases to armed U.S. drones.
"The reason we don't really have a lot of precedent here is that presidents in the past have gone out of their way to avoid getting even close to the Emoluments Clause," she said.
And getting even close to zero may require settling some of the world's most intractable arguments, such as the tussle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir or the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, though America and the former Soviet Union made some progress in cutting weapons, despite their cold-war relations.
The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appears to be getting even closer with just six days left before the election.
But getting even closer to those voices and instruments, and the room in which they were recorded, will be a wonderful thing.
How women could vote Hillary Clinton into the White House The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appears to be getting even closer with just six days left before the election.
By using the glass (silica) beads, they were able to get separations as small as 10 nanometers (10 billionths of a meter, or one-hundredth the distance achieved before), and are now working on getting even closer spacings.
YouTube already has an extensive Google+ integration, but now the two services are getting even closer.
And for some Walmart shoppers, that future is getting even closer.
But recently, he's been getting even closer, obsessively collecting images of faces made as close as the frame will possibly allow.
Since both our numbers ended up below 143, let's try getting even closer by trying one more multiplication problem: 27 x 6 = 162.
