Sentence examples for it is actually close from inspiring English sources

John Roberts may not be a community organizer like our president and the New York Times may not be doing retrospectives like they did for the president about how John Roberts is about as Catholic as the pope -- because, well,in John Roberts case, it is actually close to true.

The dwarf planet Pluto's orbit is the most eccentric of all and is so lopsided that at its Perihelion it is actually closer to the sun than Neptune.

Wine drinkers tend to know the two bookends of the vast valley, which spans nearly 500 miles: Muscadet to the west and Sancerre, so far east that it is actually closer to Champagne than to its own cousins in the middle of the Loire region.

When it was put to Mourinho he has invested £300m since taking over – it is actually closer to £261m – he responded: "It is not enough.

THOUGH elegant Victoria, at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, is the capital of British Columbia, it is actually closer to the United States than to the Canadian mainland.

It is so subjective that it is actually closer to what we might describe as 'good taste' - a synthetic combination of sensory information, knowledge – and a degree of showmanship.

Note: Although we frequently translate "Torah" as "Law", it is actually closer to "instruction" or "teaching".

CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this post said the wine was around $6 when it is actually closer to $7.

It is actually closer in the cheap seats where I sit, where you couldn't see it as well.

A provincial auditor's report in 2006 put the real cost to tax payers at C$2.5 billion but Olympic critics claim it is actually closer to C$6 billion -- figures that Games organizers and government officials dismiss as too high.

A surprising observation is that although F6 is a subset of F4, it is actually closer to F5 in "modular" space (distance = 0.18) than to F4 (distance = 0.26), despite the feeding and exploration circuits not having any neuron in common.