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use "close on" in a sentence
She is close on sixty.
, is close on £5,000.
With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death and every poisonous element of death in action close on life,-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two; here sow him in corruption, to be raised[123] in corruption; an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside; a shameful testimony to future ages that civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
Their numbers amounted to close on ten thousand men, who at the crisis undertook to protect London, not only against a possible attack of an enemy from without, but also against the depredations of thieves and rioters within.
Larry and his three chums, treading close on one another’s heels, advanced and halted alternately, as the leading portion of the line rushed across or stayed.
Close on ninety they say.
The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on 4) the panels; children kept shop upon the steps; the schoolboy had tried his knife on the mouldings; and for close on a generation, no one had appeared to drive away these random visitors or to repair their ravages.
This three years past, and close on four, she had been driving us out of our minds, by encouraging each one of us, and sending him messages without meaning one word of what she says.
With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside, a shameful testimony to future ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
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