Not getting that wicket and then a couple of poor performances saw us relegated, but we were so close to success.
At times the authors come dangerously close to attributing success to successfulness.
Bohnett hasn't come close to replicating his success with GeoCities, but he has had a few wins.
The team hasn't come close to matching the success it had in the Motor City under the leadership of Laimbeer.
The team hasn't come close to matching the success it had in the Motor City when the Shock won three WNBA titles.
Expectations are high, but fans will have to wait and see whether Richardson and his former teammates have what it takes to surpass, or even come close to, the rookie success of former BCS champions.
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Those identifications were more difficult to make than the Katrina identifications will be, Kimsey said, adding that he anticipates the experts will have close to a 100 percent success rate in creating DNA profiles of the hurricane victims.
Yet, its success was close to being thwarted when it was produced.
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But he did not mention one King protege: the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the only other black presidential candidate to come close to Obama's mainstream success.
And now that it has all but wound down--on Thursday Congress passed a bill giving buyers who had entered contracts before April 30 an extra three months to close their sales--they are looking for ways to imitate its success.
If Guan follows Tiger Woods's blueprint for success, he will stay close to home for the next few years, attend school and do the normal things teenagers do, while continuing to win tournaments and dominate at age-appropriate levels.
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"I don't think Hollywood was ready to have that many young black actors running around with statues in the town, " he said, noting that the lack of a statue can't come close to the career opportunities he's been provided, thanks to the show's success.
Interventionists once attributed Japan's success to industrial policy and to close relations between groups of firms and banks.
The UK was close to the top of the league on one measure of success rates - although the exact figures provoked controversy over their accuracy and were withheld from the conference.
So while there are some anti-fraud success stories, no one thinks we are even close to shutting down the massive fraud efforts in Medicare and Medicaid that would save billions of taxpayer dollars.
The Baltimore Orioles have improved, but their penchant for winning close games last year had baseball experts pegging a lot of their newfound success to luck, and predicting that a repeat performance is unlikely.
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"These colleges, by really paying close attention to what comes next, are aligning what they do to that kind of success, " said Josh Wyner, executive director of the Aspen Institute's college excellence program, which awards the prize.
Disney is expected to gain market share riding on the success of its animated movies from a global box office market share of close to 8% in 2010.
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The results are proving to deliver on the expectation: higher close rates, deeper engagement with hospital staff leading to more opportunities, and a steady progression of success as more teams and reps master the tools.
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As a close friend and ally, the United States intends to work closely with you to help make it a success.
The race has been a massive success and the odds for a New Yorker of getting in through the lottery must be close to getting your kid into an Ivy League school.
Netflix can target a total of 38 million households in its current markets in Europe and can gain more than 12 million subscribers if it can emulate its success in the U.S. in these markets, and can achieve a penetration close to 30% of households.
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Amid a lopsided electorate, the county GOP organization has had little success in electing candidates and hasn't often mounted an aggressive effort, according to people close to New York Republican politics and campaign spending records.
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