Sentence examples for it came very close from inspiring English sources
Green & Black's, an English brand, was readily available in New York, and if its 85percentt bar didn't have quite the flavor bouquet that Scharffen Berger 82 packed back in its heyday, it came very close, and the mouth feel was arguably better.
In that year, the education system was trundling along perfectly serviceably; the financial system, in contrast, performed its job so badly that it came very close to causing global economic collapse.
In February, it came very close to doing so.
It came very close to happening in a set by Kelly Clarkson, whose voice gleamed with light and power.
The show was a ratings hit, and critics, naturally, hated it; John J. O'Connor, of the Times, for instance, thought that it came "very close to cruelty," and fell "between the treacherous television stools of cupidity and cynicism".
"All in all, Lewis deserved to win the championship," Rosberg says afterwards. "I came very close and it is a pity it did not work out".
"It's a tournament I came very close to winning one time,"said Agassi, who lost to Alberto Mancini in 1989.
Nature's Grocer packs so much into its five short aisles that it comes very close to being a one-stop health food shop.
It comes very close to the "parameters" described by Bill Clinton at around the same time.
This gesture is not too little, too late, but it comes very close.
