Sentence examples for saves close to from inspiring English sources

As if that's not enough to recommend it, Horowitz exclaimed, "It's only $1.99 on the Kindle!" That's not only good news for the bookish world traveler on a budget, it saves close to a pound for the donkey.

Not only is household saving close to a record low, but net national saving (at around 2% of GDP) is at its lowest rate since the Great Depression.Does this matter?

"I must have saved close to £1m".

I deleted those, saving close to two gigabytes.

Having already saved 40percentnt of the BBC's revenues in this Charter period, we must save close to another 20percentnt over the next five years.

The Cal football team, instead of flying to Los Angeles for a game against U.C.L.A. earlier this season, took buses, saving close to $30,000.

Nine months after New York City suspended the recycling of glass and plastics to save money, the city comptroller and several City Council members charged yesterday that the city would not save close to the $40 million the Bloomberg administration had projected.

The end of the war in Iraq and the drawing down of US forces in Afghanistan from next year are expected to save close to $50bn in spending on Overseas Contingency Operations, a one-third reduction in spending.

In announcing their bill, both Ryan and Brady claimed that a typical middle-class family, with two kids and about fifty thousand dollars in earnings, stood to save close to twelve hundred dollars in taxes.

According to the Bush Administration's own figures, it costs the government four times as much to back private loans as to make the loans itself, and the Obama Administration estimates that getting rid of the subsidies and guarantees will save close to $90 billion.

If child benefit were means-tested and the pensioner freebies were scrapped, the government could save close to £10 billion.The trouble is that such drastic reforms (in which cuts by the Treasury would exceed those by Mr Duncan Smith's department) would involve some embarrassing jettisoning of pre-election promises.