Sentence examples for stole close to from inspiring English sources

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, between independence in 1960 and the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria's leaders and their accomplices stole close to $400 billion.

Over the next several days, we made several landings on Victoria and Banks Islands, where we trod endless tundra and stole close to a herd of musk oxen, the shaggy-coated beasts drinking their fill in a ravine before thundering away like a horde of unruly Visigoths.

He's since returned about $4 million worth of stuff, but he probably stole close to $100 million".

Among them are former finance minister Avraham Hirschson who stole close to two million shekels from the National Workers Labor Federation while acting as chairman of the organization, and the current minister of economy, Aryeh Deri, who spent nearly two years in jail for taking bribes while he was interior minister.

Pierce, apparently, has stolen close to a billion dollars from a gangster named Shaw Steven Berkofff), who is also hunting him.

Steal close to a fat, sweating carafe.

As an executant of the young king's commands, Bute, though equipped with no grander a title than groom of the stole, was close to being prime minister.

They should be reassured that this Wolf doesn't get to steal any children, but he comes close to stealing the show.

The fact that someone had invaded our home -- had come in uninvited and unannounced and inspected our things without our permission, and then stole things that were close to us without a care in the world except to leave without getting caught -- left me reeling.

And side dishes sometimes come close to stealing the show.

"I think it comes this close to stealing public money".