Sentence examples for practically closing from inspiring English sources

When we finally found the real estate office -- in one of those quaint buildings that don't believe in identifying themselves as commercial businesses -- it was practically closing time.

On the same day he cashed a check for fifty-one hundred dolland, and previous to that he had cashed one for sixty-five hundred and seventy-five hundre practically closing out his checking account.

The banks have already seen off proposals for more effective supervision.The new government's other achievement has been to make the rouble look almost stable, chiefly by practically closing down wholesale currency trading between banks.

Since the market got going again in mid-2003 after practically closing after the bursting of the bubble—deal volumid-2003 afteready at about 15 Ipractically, about half the bubble-era rate, says Jay Ritter, an eclosingt aftere Universitheof Florida.

Now it is practically closed.

"But during the war all of these enterprises were practically closed," he said.

In one ad, a dog is yawning with its eyes practically closed.

The worst offender is Denmark, which is practically closed to foreign entrants, says Friedrich Heinemann, one of the authors of the study.

These settlements are a central blockage to the peace process and the very reason that Israel cannot practically close off its borders.

This true openness requires that Microsoft not follow Google's clever but conniving lead with the Android platform, which is technically open, but practically closed.

The German market, practically closed to Bordeaux wines for a good ten years, was now open — and all the more widely as it included the occupied territories of Western Europe".