Sentence examples for was not so close from inspiring English sources

If the election this year was not so close, it was far more expensive.

"But it was not so close as to actually threaten to shoot it down," the official said.

The jet was not so close to the small craft that the pilot had to take any "evasive action," the aviation administration said.

Mr. Blaine's handlers raised his box a bit, so it was not so close to the public, erected a wire fence around the spot over which he is hanging, and hired the sort of security guards who usually can be found outside violence-prone nightclubs in scary parts of town.

"I wish that I did not have to think about rape, that it was not so close to home, that I did not have to think about the many times I have felt the combination of rage and tenderness as they talked about how someone had raped them" Gqola concludes.

The meeting was adjourned; the closing suddenly wasn't so close.

It would be funny if it wasn't so close to the truth.

She had her regulars – her former adviser Robin Harris, Bernard Ingham, her press secretary – but she wasn't so close to her family.

"I can't say how much attention I would have paid to HS2 if it wasn't so close to me," she says.

"If it wasn't so close, I'd go for Nader for sure, just to show my support for what he's talking about," he said.

"Selina's going to get closer to the West Wing and then perhaps wish she wasn't so close to the West Wing," she said in August 2012.