"It's not even close to anything like what we had last week, " Mr. Smith said.
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It was a week before lower Manhattan was even close to being open for business.
True, the space is not even close to settling down into something resembling a stable environment.
We're not even close to running out of oil, as many in the 1970s feared.
This James output (29 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists) was not a masterpiece, not even close.
Mr. KING: (Singing) I heard it's 3:00 in the morning, can't even close my eyes.
Still, it doesn't seem like Blago's fee should be even close to Captain Kirk's.
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Which is not to say that trade is even close to being entirely free.
But reversing the Estonian milk industry recovery will cost jobs, even close down whole businesses.
Even close to the cities and highways, roads soon peter out into pot-holed dirt tracks.
As usual, Southwest had the fewest complaints per passenger boarded and the other carriers weren't even close.
Years later, none of these unfortunate investors are even close to recouping their losses on the IPO.
More times than not, the aggregate score is not even close to a number that guarantees a medal.
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The increase in cardiac death is no longer even close to statistically significant.
No economy, surely no large economy, is even close to producing these numbers.
And for Ocean Power, it's not even close to being a profitable one.
For most normal, emotionally well adjusted men, this would not cause some big offense and heartbreak- not even close.
It may even close the door to a full or early political settlement.
Many accuse him of dithering, and even close allies such as Britain are expressing exasperation with the delay in Washington.
Often the depth of their scars is not even close to the depth of heart pain that came with those scars.
Yet management experts and economists have always lamented that nothing else comes even close as a workplace incentive or motivational tool.
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But if the theory behind these ventures is even close to being right, they'll naturally take a long time to develop.
They can point angel investors and VCs to their online profiles, apply for funding and even close deals from their computers.
News overnight that Samsung has an active smart watch program will have surprised even close observers of the Korean electronics giant.
In short, the U.S. is not even close to being over taxed.
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We always said night matches at the U.S. Open had the best atmosphere, but it's not even close to what it was today.
But Palin has done fewer than a dozen speeches in which she has made even close to this number, says the Palin insider.
But I think he, you know, what he repeated to me was that he felt that his mission wasn't even close to being done.
The PS3 has held its own but is not believed to have come even close to that number, with estimates hovering around 77 million.
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