"It was a lot closer than I thought it was going to be, " admitted Ponting.
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We didn't win, but we came a lot closer than I think that we should have.
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"I'm closer to looking like Roc than I've ever been, " he says.
Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.
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Or that he is frequently told, as I am, to "go back to Mexico" -- which is ironic, given that, since I'm the grandson of a Mexican immigrant and Romney is the son of a Mexican immigrant, the GOP presidential candidate is one generation closer to the motherland than I am.
And believe me, the gamers who (try to) kill me online all day are a lot closer to me than the kids I go to high school with.
"All Irish writers are either followers of James Joyce or of Beckett and I would be closer to Beckett than to Joyce, " he explained.
Americans work much closer to the 40-hour-week than I suspected, though I do know from personal experience that many work far too much, some tackling more than one job and still not getting healthcare benefits.
"I sometimes feel closer to the SAS than anyone else, " he once told me in private.
"This is a problem that the world has been talking about since the 1940s, and I think we are much, much closer to resolving it today than we have been in the past".
As the United States has a vibrant private hospital system, I imagine it would be singularly well adapted to something closer to the French model than the British or Canadian one.
Or, more precisely, nearly upon us, because the robotic vacuum cleaners I tested actually bear a much closer resemblance to the quirky appliances on The Flintstones than they do to the flawlessly performing bots featured on The Jetsons.
David Jones wouldn't be drawn on the UK government's policy on the issue (although I think we can guess it's closer to that of the MP for Monmouth than the MP for Meirionnydd).
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