Sentence examples for hardly close from inspiring English sources

The new findings hardly close the book on how memories are formed and consolidated during sleep.

After all, the two are hardly close ideologically, and their countries have plenty to quarrel over, from protectionism to Iraq.

That's bad, but it is hardly close to the kind of thing that concerned Hamilton, Madison, and their colleagues.

But that will hardly close the gap – up to £1,690 a year per family – that the Resolution Foundation calculates would be left by cutting child tax credits to 2003 levels (one option).

It is also of interest to China that half of the 24 mainly small countries around the world that still recognise Taiwan rather than China are in Latin America and the Caribbean.Despite a flurry of presidential and ministerial visits in both directions, and mounting mutual curiosity, China and Latin America are hardly close.

While there appears to be no lingering hostility from the 2005 Masters, when they nearly came to blows during a heated exchange in the Champions locker room over spike marks Singh accused Mickelson of leaving on the greens with long (but legal) spikes, they are hardly close.

This is true, but hardly closes the issue.

But 34 years later we are hardly closer to curing lung cancer than we were then.

Had hardly closed door behind him, when Mrs. Pratt said, "Nothing today.

The president's advisers, meanwhile, say they are hardly closing up the money shop.

ANNE HUTCHINSON, the first female defendant in the colonies, was banished from Boston for heresy in 1638, but her case is hardly closed.