Sentence examples for were close to completion from inspiring English sources

With rayon chemise packed and flight socks at the ready, Gail's plans were close to completion, it seemed.

New subway lines were close to completion, and more skyscrapers were being added each month to the landscape to replace the fast-disappearing hutongs ("residential alleyways").

The government had given the experts "full access to the information needed to develop their work" and had answered 85percentt of their 941 requests, he said, adding that the remaining 15percentt were close to completion.

Details released by Tandridge council said two out of three permanent water storage areas were close to completion.

They were close to completion but they soon realized that sites with three Gs in the name had gone out with the BeeGeeGeeGees.

This might be due to the fact that all cementitious materials reactions were close to completion, or had stopped; mainly because the reactions between MK and OPC mixtures were slowed down with time (Wild and Khatib 1997).

Almost all the planned outputs and services have been completed and those under construction are close to completion but the intended contribution to reduction in suspected cases of cholera is yet to be realised in the numbers reported at the Cholera Unit.

That deal is close to completion.

His move to QPR must be close to completion.

The Nassau County Memorial Coliseum was close to completion.

Such measures have been under negotiation for weeks and are thought to be close to completion.