Sentence examples for soar to almost from inspiring English sources

An audit he sought from the central bank showed this week that the deficit could soar to almost 7% of GDP this year.

Instead his government cut capital investment in building new homes to just £1bn a year while letting the housing benefits bill soar to almost £25 billion last year – taxpayers money paid straight into landlords' pockets.

To access the vast swathes of virgin snow here, Ali Shah takes skiers on foot up the steep slopes of the Koh-e Baba range, part of the Hindu Kush, where peaks soar to almost 5,000 metres.

Especially the Chiricahua Mountains, the most spectacular of southern Arizona's sky islands, so called because their lush peaks soar to almost 10,000 feet from a sea of encircling desert scrub.

In two decades the man who made his $4.4bn fortune largely by investing in real estate, particularly dozens of shopping malls across the US, saw the value of his franchise soar to almost $1.1bn, according to the latest figures from Forbes – enough of a profit to soften the team's correlating decline on the field.

Surface temperatures probably soar to almost 600°C, so there's no hope of finding liquid water there, let alone life.

The annual soybean value approximated $5M in the late 1980s, soaring to almost $200M in 2012 (Fig.2).

The shootings occurred as temperatures soared to almost 100 degrees on Thursday.

In 2011 that number had soared to almost 700,000, according to NYPD figures.

In temperatures which soared to almost 60C, the detainees were kept in the stress position.

Oil was touching $150 per barrel and Russia's currency reserves soared to almost half a trillion dollars.