Sentence examples for taking close to from inspiring English sources
Moore's 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11, is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking close to $120m£75m5m) at the US box office to date.
Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, taking close to $120m£75m5m) at the US box office.
In August, the Party secretary at an obscure college in the city of Nanchang was convicted of taking close to a million dollars in bribes for construction contracts and other favors.
As the oil price rises, investors will make a higher and unlimited profit, taking close to one quarter of oil revenues, whether each barrel is fetching $70 or $200.
"It wasn't like walking in cold to a showroom, where you instantly feel pressured". Since Mr. McLendon knew other Porsche dealers were taking close to $6,000 off the Boxster sticker prices, that was his original volley.
A big reason that comedy did so well (taking close to £200m at the box office) was that the escalating farce was always underpinned by a seriousness – the sense of an overburdened friendship between Wiig and Rudolph, much of it expressed through Rudolph's wistful stares.
It wound up taking closer to four months.
Each revolution took close to forty minutes to complete.
But the measurements taken close to the plant vary widely.
The scenic drive takes close to two hours.
Americans now take close to three billion prescription medications a year.
