Sentence examples for involves close to from inspiring English sources

The fabrication of, say, electronic microcircuits involves close to 100 separate chemical steps from start to finish.

The gunman "was very deliberate in my estimation, very calculated," said Mr. Kastigar, who viewed the video as part of the extensive investigation by the Sheriff's Department that involves close to 250 people.

This southeastern Michigan 18-year tradition of classic cars from the 1950s through the early 1970s involves close to a million participants up and down the first paved highway in America.

Identification of CPPs coupled with a robust control strategy designed to assure adherence of the design space to its predetermined ranges involves close to real-time process assessment to ensure that the process is operating in conditions to deliver predetermined end product quality, thereby reducing the need, and more importantly the value, of end product testing.

Bob Kiley, his transport supremo, rejected it as unworkable after a lengthy negotiation last year involving close to 100 meetings.

The ongoing fighting is believed to involve close to 1,000 opposition fighters and regime forces backed by armoured units, including tanks.

Yet after almost two decades of trials at the tribunal in The Hague, involving close to 120 people, no officials of the Belgrade government are serving a sentence over atrocities in Bosnia or Croatia.

The incident in question, however, involved close to $100,000 and the buyer got absolutely nothing out of it.

The incident in question, however, involved close to $100,000, and the buyer got absolutely nothing out of it.

The 2008 U.S. elections involved close to $1.8 billion of campaign cash -- how much of it bought special access, special favors and special influence to those with politicians to those who made particularly generous contributions, and those who "bundled" the mega-contributions on behalf of candidates?

We implemented a strategy for investigating T-cell activation — a process involving close to ten ligand-receptor pairs.