Sentence examples for means close to from inspiring English sources
The town's name means "close to the big river".
According to the latest Ibope opinion survey, the former military man has the support of 11% of voters, which means close to 15 million people endorse a supporter of dictatorship.
Even Ron Conway's second angel fund, which had the good fortune to invest in Google (a 400x cost winner), only broke even (that means close to a 0percentt IRR)!
That means close to one-third of the people inside were either wounded or killed.
The film ends with Jane Goodall meeting and saying goodbye to a chimpanzee named Wounda (Wounda means "close to dying").
The phrase is based on a nautical term from the late 17th century, which stems from the practice of sailing by (which means close to the line of the wind) or sailing large (which means with the wind on the quarter).
Thirty-nine means closer to 50, curvy means obese, and "the girlfriend experience" is sex with chatting and cuddling.
PC-correction improved the signal-to-noise ratio, pushing state means closer to zero, allowing this increase in sensitivity without loss of specificity.
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.
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.
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.
