Sentence examples for mean close to from inspiring English sources

Basically, he could have gotten the whole of the Bush high-end tax cuts reversed, which would mean close to $800 billion in revenue over the next decade.

If these plants all end up being taxed, Mr. Kessel said, that could mean close to $500 million in additional costs to LIPA over the next 20 years, and those costs would be passed on directly to its customers.

Ilan Stavans, a Mexican Jew who is a professor of Hispanic and Jewish studies at Amherst College, said that the census figure plus new regulations allowing "millions of more Mexicans into the country -- that will shortly mean close to 40 million people -- would make the New York City publishing world realize the potential.

At Brown's Harvest in Windsor, one of the state's oldest tobacco farms, these "old-fashioned ways" mean close to 300 local and migrant workers planting, tying, trimming and harvesting about 1 million tobacco plants on the farm's 100 acres, said Kathi Brown Martin, 44, whose great-grandfather James Brown started the farm in 1874 and whose family still works it today.

At the same time, the Army's plan for creating special "warrior transition units" to deliver more personalized care at 32 national centers is bedeviled by staff shortages that mean close to half of the eligible troops are unable to get the service.

At that same pace, that would mean close to $550 billion in payments processed per year — that's close to double the $282 billion that PayPal processes a year.

This will most likely bring you closer, and by closer, I mean closer to breaking up forever.

This induces a response to selection R that shifts the population mean closer to the new optimum.

The town's name means "close to the big river".

Acceptance of her application, which was based on 11 employees, would have meant close to $40,000 for her over 18 months, assuming the employee number did not change.

That means close to one-third of the people inside were either wounded or killed.