Sentence examples for virtually close from inspiring English sources

They clear thousands from their homes and virtually close down whole cities for a month.

New York City Transit plans to virtually close the station for four years for track repairs on the Manhattan Bridge.

However, inflation should fall to 2% the year after next, when a relative surge in exports should virtually close the current account deficit.

Opponents of the dam argue that it may generate so much that it will virtually close the harbour on the Yangzi at Chongqing, China's biggest inland city.The biggest nightmare, of course, is that the dam might collapse.

The European Union trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, said a 40percenttariffff on steel imports would virtually close the United States steel market to the rest of the world.

Meanwhile, breast cancer deaths in the UK have fallen by 40% over the last two decades to virtually close the gap with France.

Spain has virtually closed the frontier.

The mining industry virtually closed for days.

Now the hospital is virtually closed.

Now, those markets are virtually closed to such financing.

On the short sixteenth, he made a good par save, which virtually closed it out.