Sentence examples for serve close to from inspiring English sources

More than 7m small grocery stores (known as kiranas) account for around 90% of the total retail trade, and serve close to 100m slum dwellers.

It currently claims to serve close to 400 running events around Europe.

Four early childhood centers combine to serve close to 2000 preschoolers per year, with slots available to about 99% of children who apply.

If I serve like I did at the end of the second set and the third set [against Cilic], it doesn't matter how well someone's returning, because if you hit a serve close to the line on grass, you can't get there".

There should be no question that American women are entirely able to serve closer to the frontlines – and even on them.

The moves — announced by Gen. James F. Amos, the Marine Corps commandant, in a message sent to all Marines on Monday night — are intended largely to study how women perform in formerly male-only units, and reflect new Pentagon rules released in February allowing women to serve closer to the front line.

The police, who usually serve closer to home but are more like frontline paramilitaries than the civil order forces of the western world, have lower numbers of disappearing officers, but it still stacks up to around 15% of the force each year.

Robert splurged on lawyers, got his assets seized and served close to a decade in prison.

It encompasses a 4.5-square-mile area and serves close to 2,000 students.

We already know of two men who served close to two decades each in prison because of his testimony who were later exonerated by DNA.

The WIR-franc in Switzerland has operated for over 80 years and serves close to 50,000 business all over the country.