Sentence examples for very close at hand from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Close at hand.

If something is close at hand, it is nearby or conveniently located.

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An encounter with a stranger leading to an invisible criminal underworld very close at hand?

Here above Malabo's Old Harbor, the longevity of the Iranian Revolution does not seem a subject very close at hand.

In addition to enjoying the humour of these two passages, you can't help feeling a little frightened that these visions are very close at hand.

The federal government building – which has the national bank very close at hand – is more ambitious, but if it is really based on Florentine palaces the idea didn't travel well.

As the forces of good assemble at Hogwarts for the final showdown with Voldemort and his hordes, Harry knows only that the most vital horcrux is actually in the castle, very close at hand.

The 2019 date seems very close at hand relative to the progress of the technology thus far – Cruise only began tackling the problem of developing self-driving cars three years ago, before being acquired by GM last year.

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It might be very specific and close at hand -- something amiss you see in the program you're working on, some outrageous expenditure of money or set of lies about what an agency or outfit is doing, or some act or set of acts that you, in growing up, had been taught were un-American.

O'Neil had one well-informed source very close to hand: her fiance's mother, Julie Parker, who worked at Reading – and loved her work – until it closed in 2013.

As he suggests, "we have many companies at this stage, in this sector that the resources are very close to hand".

One time, however, at a very popular musical, curtain time was close at hand and I was having no luck.

Real crisis is always close at hand in such moments.

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