Is it in fact close to a final deal, or is the sense that this might come down to the deadline of April 8?
In fact, close to 70 billionaires from 20 countries were expected to attend the invitation only event this year.
The fact that we could be close to a bottom is confirmed by the enormous amount of negativity in the media last week and the fact that a sentiment poll we closely monitor hit bearish extremes that were last seen in 2002.
Everton did at least end a sequence of two straight home defeats but they remain perilously close to the relegation zone - a fact not lost on supporters who booed their team at the final whistle.
Meanwhile, the fact that there are close to a billion users of iOS and Android means the addressable market is huge.
But with a second major title so close, and the fact she needed to reach the final to retain the No. 1 ranking, she desperately didn't want to quit this time.
The Home Office said the higher cost per inmate of detention centres was due to a range of factors including the fact they were much smaller than prisons and were close to airports, making land prices and rents higher.
"The key problem, I think... is the fact it's so close to the coastline, " he said.
In fact, says a source close to Clinton, it was the President who was upset by the whole Willey affair.
In fact, Stony Brook is close to the bottom after having its lineup gutted by a player exodus to professional baseball.
The similarities in the cases, the fact that Dugard was found close to home and comments from neighbors make Murch think her daughter could have been on Garrido's compound.
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In fact, the Trotters came close to taking a surprise lead within the first 10 minutes when Stelios smashed in a shot that had to be tipped over by Abbiati.
The fact that interest rates are close to all-time lows and investors have piled into low yielding fixed income instruments the last several years, suggests to me that deflation is not a likely outcome.
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If Ford had won the election in 1976 (the fact that he came so close to winning, under the circumstances, was a political miracle), the subsequent debacles in Iran and Central America would likely not have taken place.
The public's perception of Ms Tripp as the scandal's most sinister character stems from the fact that she has been suspiciously close to many breaking White House scandals.
In fact, the results would be very close to 50 of each colour.
He said it was "particularly chilling" given the fact that a primary school was so close to the scene.
Samsung, in fact, are playing their design credentials close to their chests at this point, given who their competition is.
In fact what you would need was something close to double-digit inflation for a couple of years: an inflation "shock" that really gets you started.
As a result (and because of the fact that the Marine Corps has come close to being disbanded several times), Marines are a proud species.
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Misleading to the extent that I would accuse some of those using the line, those who do in fact know better, of coming quite close to lying.
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The virtue of these policies in the current context is that they allow the Federal Reserve to continue to push down interest rates and ease credit conditions in a range of markets, despite the fact that the federal funds rate is close to its zero lower bound.
Several tour operators contacted by CNN said that the process may have gotten bogged down by the fact that the renewal application is now close to 200 pages and requires that the operators explain how each stop on the itinerary fosters greater friendship between Americans and Cubans.
In fact, there's a neighborhood right close to downtown Fort Worth - Greenway Place - is a low-income African-American neighborhood.
And the fact that the sun and moon were particularly close to the Earth at precisely the same time -- well, that made the tidal bulges even bigger.
The facts are that the preferred bid was indeed not the Bourne bid but a bid by Nomura, that in fact was headed up by someone who is close to the Conservative Party not the Labour Party.
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Sam the Lion, the rough-hewn soul of the town, has died, and the woman to whom he turned over the movie theater he owned is lamenting the fact that she is going to have to close it down.
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