Sentence examples for the nearest to come to from inspiring English sources

This large contact investigation may be the nearest to come to an intervention study.

He won the Bafta Writer's Award in 1985, but eventually found it difficult, as the millennium neared, to come to terms with the new demands of TV writing, what he called "being alternately patronised and bullied by girls called Fiona flourishing clipboards".

They didn't give up but neither did the St Helens defence and another magnificent tackle by Wellens denied Richard Horne what looked a certain try and that proved to be the nearest they were to come to another score.

But are the conservatives anywhere near ready to come to terms with the demands of the new generation?

Owsley and two contingent counties "furnished an average five hundred volunteers to the country, not one of whom is near enough to come to the rescue of their friends; they are all at Vicksburg, Murfreesboro, and other points out of the State," Gilbert wrote a Louisville newspaper.

Jared Diamond once described the country's native fauna as the nearest we're likely to come to "life on another planet".

The nearest you are likely to come to experiencing life in a dictatorship is at work.

He lives near Harvard Square and welcomes the opportunity to come to MIT for discussions.

With their support, and with support from its funders and investors, it has the clout to come to a community near you.

The Greek government says it is trying to persuade those stuck in camps at the border in near-freezing temperatures to come to Athens and apply for asylum in Greece.

There will definitely be a lot more coming in the near future, but people have to come to terms with the fact that the "equity" that they think they have in their homes is not even close to reality.