Locog executives often cite the royal wedding as the nearest example of an event approached with scepticism by some but wildly celebrated by almost all.
For the nearest other example of the way it depicts women's lives, you have to look not eagerly forwards but ruefully backwards, all the way to Cagney & Lacey.
THE PROBLEM of global warming is a near-perfect example of the tragedy of the commons.
But it rewards the reader, slowly revealing itself to be a near-perfect example of the kind of story which sits inscrutably between the supernatural and the real.
(Is that a new Jagger verse?) The song is a snotty, surprisingly affecting bit of country-rock that serves as a near perfect example of the late-seventies Rolling Stones.
This was, Hirschman wrote, a "near perfect example of the economist's bias in favor of exit and against voice": In the first place, Friedman considers withdrawal or exit as the "direct" way of expressing one's unfavorable views of an organization.
At one end there was the Danish/American/global practice BIG, whose flashy, icon-making style was just what the project doesn't need; at the other, the French Lacaton and Vassal, whose art spaces in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris are near-perfect example of the sort of subtle excavations the old market does need.
By the mid-1990s, hadhad burned out on practicing as a vet, and he put all his energy into creating a near-perfect example of the form, a high-end straw-bale spec house that he built over a five-year period and sold for more than $500,000 to a couple from Manhattan.
She's still kicking herself for deciding to give a wash and light bleach to a near-perfect example of the Uncle Sam "I Want You!" poster.
It was a near-perfect example of the "just… one.. more… level" type of gaming experience, driving you on via a cleverly designed series' of challenges that make even repetitive in-game action seem fresh and new for a long time.
