Sentence examples for still come close from inspiring English sources

A notoriously slow starter who is only 32, Teixeira should still come close to those numbers.

Thinking I could satisfy my advisers and still come close to realizing my own dreams, I proposed that I should pursue a career in architecture.

He could still come close to achieving an overall parliamentary majority on a vote share of just 32 per cent, but conventional calculations are thrown into question by the advance of Ukip and the Greens and their impact on the marginal seats which hold the key to election victory.

The start of the popular uprisings in 2011 - the Arab spring - raised expectations again, not of Arab unity, but of something that would still come close to meeting popular aspirations.

According to Deadline.com, many expected the film to earn around $90 million over the weekend; "Men In Black 3" -- which had a lengthy production process and cost well over $200 million -- could still come close to that goal, should it play well with family audiences over the next three days.

But for the moment it's an exception: Though the optics beat what you find on phones, the pixel counts of most camcorders still come closer to camera phones than to real cameras.

However, even if the amount of initial variability and these other parameters were fixed, a decision maker could still come closer to achieving an optimal bias on short trials by offsetting the activation difference variable by an even larger amount.

Hence, in this paper we have compared our results mainly with those in Tóth et al. [ 9], since their detection criteria (perfect STRs, minimum length 13 bp), main characteristics (TR densities) and the compared taxa still come closest to those used in the present analysis.

"I didn't have much money but I still came close to knocking him down.

The old poacher is carrying some extra avoirdupois these days but still came close to scoring at the Kop end.

Still, coming close to self-criticism for someone who has typically blamed the United States or Mexican lawmakers for what goes wrong, Mr. Calderón said he would have shored up state and local police forces that were now overwhelmed as well as hobbled by inexperience, lack of training, incompetence and corruption.