Sentence examples for stretches close from inspiring English sources

Located in one of the planet's last great wildernesses, Manaus is doubly isolated: first by the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimões, then by a sea of green forest that stretches close to 600 miles on all sides.

The results show connected/gaining streams in the river stretches close to the permanent springs, while in the surroundings of the overflow springs the river reaches behave as gaining (high flow) and as perched/losing (low flow).

This special condition should be considered taking into account that these segments are intrinsically disordered and therefore very flexible; they have charged stretches close to which or in which the phospho-sites are often allocated.

But even humble DSL, though it cannot match cable, improves inexorably over time as the RBOC fiber stretches closer to the home, shortening the leaky copper links.

At his home, Sunday lunches would stretch close to the dinner hour.

If you can think of this style stretched close to three hours without wincing, then "Millie" is your show.

The doors were closed and the gym was full, its seating capacity stretched close to 1,000 during the junior varsity game.

Ambulance services in England are stretched close to breaking point with three of the country's 10 ambulance trusts declaring themselves under intense pressure over the Christmas period.

Now the houses are tightly packed in a haphazard agglomeration of improvised constructions that stretch close to the top of the adjacent mountain ridge.

And it was leisurely, stretching close to five hours, with set changes that slowed the pace to between four and five songs per hour.

General practice is already stretched close to breaking point so we need to address this as a matter of urgency," he said.