Sentence examples for none close from inspiring English sources

There were three defenders close by, but none close enough.

We turned onto a road with a few cars, but none close to us.

This was wishful thinking: there had been no such revision, just thousands of pages of a half-dozen versions, none close to complete.

The cheers from the crowd of 16,972 grew louder with each ball to John Vander Wal, who walked on four pitches, none close to the strike zone.

Rémy Colinet, an engineer from Avignon, France, used the Internet to search for Citroën owners' groups near Charlotte, N.C., to which he was recently transferred by his employer, but found none close by.

Moreover, Bertone et al. [ 8] estimated divergence times from a single gene (28S rDNA) and used only a few fossil calibration points (none close to Culicidae), which may also have contributed to differences in age estimates.

But none came close to winning the blue riband event of world cycling; none closer, at any rate, than Bradley Wiggins's own fourth place in 2009.

It wasn't the only close putt that Kaye missed, none closer than a 4-footer at the par-4 No. 14.

The Ski and Snowboard Association says there are about 15 ski jumps left in the United States — none closer to New York City than Salisbury's — and roughly 400 registered ski jumpers.

The Afghan Institute of Learning, another aid group, has 32 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with none closed by the Taliban (although local communities have temporarily suspended three for security reasons).

Before beginning the maneuvers, Waddle checked the submarine's sonar contacts and noted that there were several surface vessels in the vicinity, but none closer than 7 nautical miles away.