Sentence examples for stage was close from inspiring English sources

After leaving the court for treatment, to the annoyance of Wawrinka and boos from some sections of the crowd, Nadal returned unable to serve at anything like full speed, and at one stage was close to tears.

The highest ratio in the milky ripeness stage was close to 2 in position 10, and slightly exceeded 2 in position 13.

For maize, the developmental stage of tasselling showed an inferior model fit at sites UE and OS (Table 2), while for wheat, simulation of maturity stage was closer to observations than stem elongation, inflorescence emergence and ripening.

We can see that the results at the start stage are close.

The first stage is closed now, and each of the three partners put in their own money.

If, however, they could see behind the performer, they'd realize that the drop on the other side of the stage is closer to 20 feet.

Levchin says that everyone is talking about openness, but in reality every one of the platforms represented on stage are closed to some degree.

Because that moment where we take final walk across that graduation stage is closer than ever.

This was particularly true in the UK and Denmark, whereas in Norway and Sweden stage appeared to be missing more completely at random, the prognosis for women with missing stage being closer to those with known stage, leading to smaller changes in stage-specific survival following imputation (White et al, 2011).

And Balanchine's staging was closer to the Cervantes novel and much darker than most versions.

In spirit, the Met's current staging is close to the original and allows this remarkable score to come through beautifully.