Close in sentence

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And this was in a way very obvious to everybody for a simple reason, which is that growth was close to zero percent during most of the history of mankind.

In some American cities, voter turnout was close to five percent.

What are the elegant solutions to close this gap between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto in Silicon Valley?

Imagine what happens when the cost of getting information from anywhere to anywhere is close to zero.

In the end, we had to close the business, and that broke my heart.

What happens when the average life expectancy of a business is so similar to the time it will take you to close it if it doesn't work?

Yay! (Applause) The idea is that when the new regulation comes into force, entrepreneurs will be able to close their businesses in an online procedure that is faster and inexpensive.

It's close to about a million right now.

Now, I want you to just look really close up onto what's happened there.

Together, we analyzed the West Bank and picked 100 families that are living in the most risky places: close to checkpoints, near army bases, side by side with settlers.

We'd covered 35 marathons, we were only halfway, and we had a safety net, of course, of ski planes and satellite phones and live, 24-hour tracking beacons that didn't exist for Scott, but in hindsight, rather than making our lives easier, the safety net actually allowed us to cut things very fine indeed, to sail very close to our absolute limits as human beings.

Now, to close the gap, Germany has to significantly increase migration, get many more women in the workforce, increase retirement age — by the way, we just lowered it this year — and all these measures at once.

Migration is certainly one key measure to close a gap, at least in the short term, so we asked about mobility.

And one of the best ways we can take care of the human patient is by paying close attention to how all the other patients on the planet live, grow, get sick and heal.

Unfortunately, that's a problem: they get a little too close, and when you're in a dirigible you have to be very careful about spikes.

Yet in thousands of trials with American and European and Japanese students, a significant percentage would reject any offer that's not close to 50/50.

And although they were screened and didn't know about the game and had never played the game before, proposers seemed to innately know this because the average proposal was surprisingly close to 50/50.

Seagulls fly overhead, and you feel like you're next to the sea, that you're really close to the beach.

You can never close your eyelids."

But it's not even close to sufficient.

So we can't be satisfied, not even close to satisfied.

And dream he did that afternoon, for a stadium of about 75,000 people and an audience of close to a billion watching on TV.

We saw the schools begin to close, markets no longer started, no longer functioned the way that they should in these countries.

Under close inspection, some reveal some aspects of toast-making while hiding others.

We're actually quite close.

We know within precise error bars how close it is.

So even if nobody comes onstage and switches the bill, I don't have enough time to go open the bill and close it and see what I don't want to see.

But maybe that's because we are not paying close attention.

I call them my ghost, and by having witnessed their suffering from close, you take a bit of that suffering on yourself.

At almost the exact same time, I found out that my dad, who I was very, very close to, was gay.

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