Sentence examples for increased to close from inspiring English sources

There has been some question, however, about his ability to chase down fly balls because his weight has increased to close to 250 pounds.

Interestingly, the Ministry of Defence figures show that the cost of Britain's military presence in southern Iraq increased to close to £2bn (compared with less than £1.5bn last year), just as the UK prepares to withdraw from Basra.

One piece of Mr. Durry's farmland in Chesterfield was worth 6.25 credits, which he sold for about $23,000 each (although the prices for credits has increased to close to $30,000 now that the first houses are up in the new development there, Old York Village).

After re-infusion of autologous blood, MAP increased to close to baseline level whereas PbtO2 remained very low.

Shortly thereafter, Estelle's forward motion increased to close to 25 mph.

The overall length of the race was increased to close to 3,000 kilometers, which made the race close to 500 kilometers longer than the inaugural edition of the race.

The company currently has 125 employees, but Ben-Efraim expects that to increase to close to 200 by the end of 2018.

This percentage increases to close to 44% in the Mediterranean countries in our sample.

Starting from rolled texture, asymmetry will increase to close to 1 along the rolling direction after being compressed to a strain of 0.2.

In this, Rebecca Leber makes a case that around 5 million died due to climate-related factors or carbon pollution in 2010 and that this number will increase to close to 6 million by 2030.

Confidential data from drug companies suggests this has recently increased to closer to 50 per cent.