Sentence examples for has been this close from inspiring English sources

Visa has been this close -- and a lot closer -- before.

This is the second time that Kamsky, 33, has been this close.

This is only the third time in 40 years that a presidential contest has been this close immediately after Labor Day, and that may be why more voters now say the race is interesting -- and not dull.

That's because it's the planet Mars, and this is the second time in 60,000 years that Earth has been this close.

The once-infallible News Corp. chief has been this close to DirecTV before, only to have it slip from his grip.

This race should not have been this close".

When you've been this close to death, the recovery is as much theirs as yours.

"This is the first time we have been this close in memory," said M. Claire French, the Monmouth County clerk.

I didn't know he had been this close to royalty, so I asked which one was him.

The Miami Heat had been this close before — within points, within seconds of victory — only to send everyone away in various states of distress.

The Democrat Ralph Northam has a narrow lead over his Republican rival, Ed Gillespie, in a race that strategists on both sides think should never have been this close.