Sentence examples for hardly close to from inspiring English sources

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

Asking people to spend a late summer Friday afternoon in town would be demanding a true quality-of-life sacrifice — or at least some heavy rescheduling — although she, a character from another New York, sacrificed time and money again and again for people who were hardly close to her.

Dahl is hardly close to penury.

Pigs are hardly close to providing the solution to the world's massive shortage of donor organs.

Dota 2 is arguably only the only big eSport game in which Western teams regularly find success, but any victories are typically hollow, with opposition from the East hardly close to the calibre of the aforementioned disciplines.

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

The most frenetic cinematic montage hardly comes close to the inner projections, of images and sounds, that make life come alive for the mind.

They got closer to people, they had to adjust their system, because in the first half they hardly got close to Rangers.

While classroom math does mainly boil down to memorization, contest math is hardly anything close to full-blown creativity.

Although countries have hardly come close to achieving the goal of HFA, policy-makers now agree that health policies are nonetheless crucial tools that can help in various ways (see Table 1): A health policy facilitates planning.

A comparison of two species that differ in some gross trait (e.g. monogamous prairie voles versus polygamous montane voles [ 13]) hardly comes close to being a serious attempt to control for the vast arrays of behaviour and physiology by which any two species differ.