The malaria vaccine is far from perfect, protecting close to half of its recipients from the disease, but it is nevertheless a huge step forward in combating malaria across a continent that needs all the help it can get.
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Mexico, they contend, is far less likely to welcome close foreign involvement than Colombia did.
They found that, on average, students had between six and seven close friends on Facebook, which is not far from sociologists' estimate that most people have four to six close friends in real life.
Far from curing the patient, the medicine is coming close to killing it.
Downing says that his close-season squad rebuilding is far from finished.
That said, the rotating magnetic aluminum door that reveals the SD card and SIM slots is slick -- far easier to open and close than the plastic port covers found on most other slates.
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When a system is operating at close to maximum the fear is that good planning and preparation can only go so far.
The jump in Eurozone unemployment, so far, is not hurting the Eurozone markets with many up close to 1% in early Tuesday trading.
This Opinion is as close as we have come so far to a ruling on the choice-of-law issues involving asset protection trusts, outside of the foreign trust context.
But the test may also reveal key clues the secretive nation might have hoped to hide about how close, or how far away, it is from fielding a nuclear weapon capable of striking the United States or its allies.
Bankers and officials familiar with the move have said in recent weeks that the kyat will likely be set between 800 kyat and 820 kyat to the dollar, which is close to the prevailing unofficial street rate and far from the official rate of around six kyat.
It seems just as reasonable to have strangers intervene in telling citizens which of two equally ardent and equally deserving lovers they should run away with because, after all, it is an act that will have ripple effects throughout the lives of more than one person and sometimes that one person is too close to the situation to understand its far-reaching complexity.
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It is seemingly both too close to the BBC and too far removed from it.
In fact the spread of junk over treasuries is now close to 4.9 percentage points, far less than the long-term average spread of 6 points.
But they also depend on how far away it is, how fast it is drifting by, and how close it is to the line of sight.
It currently has close to 30 million monthly active users, and is by far the most popular casual gambling game online.
Even they have off days but in their case, the norm is far below average in terms of consideration for others with whom they are close.
He's also modifying policies on the use of unmanned drone aircraft to try to limit civilian casualties and is redoubling his longstanding but so far unfulfilled promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many terrorism suspects are being held without formal charges.
So far it has signed up two companies, which are in stealth mode, and is close to deals with two others.
So will the far-right, anti-immigrant Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) group, which is close to reaching the 3% threshold for entry into parliament, according to recent polls.
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Consolidation is far from over, however, as analysts predict that over 100 more companies will likely close or get bought in the next few years.
Although at first hearing it sounds ludicrous, the Alliance argues that it is an eminently sensible way for representatives to stay in close contact with constituents living far from Edinburgh.
Morgan Stanley's REIT Index is down 24% so far this year, and most REITs sell at an average of close to 10% discount to their net underlying asset values, according to Jon Fosheim of Green Street Advisors.
It is always difficult to predict what the Supreme Court will do, and almost everyone agrees this is a close case. (The two federal courts to hear it so far have split, with Clinton winning at the trial level and Jones on appeal.) But there are good reasons to believe that the court may be reluctant to allow Jones' suit to go forward.
It is a far cry from the original hacker ethos of making one cool thing, though perhaps still close to the hacker ideal of remaking the world.
And there is the threat of far bigger supply disruptions if Iran were ever to carry out its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which 17m barrels of oil pass every day, some 20% of global supply.
They contend that it is simply in bad taste to build it so close to ground zero, and that Americans are far too emotional about the issue.
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