She used very dense stitches that are very close together to make flowing lines of bright colors.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

"I'm at home,digging in the dirt, or doing something that is very close to the Earth, because that's where I know how to survive."

VOA: special.2009.06.07

The people who saw the show were very close to the actors.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

But a bullet fired very close to the policeman struck his chest.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Van Buren had been very close to the outgoing president, Andrew Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

I knew that I was very close to finishing the proposal.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

This movie hits very close to home.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

She says the global campaign that WHO started in 1988 is very close to achieving its goal of ridding the world of this terrible paralytic disease.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

And,in fact,people live very close to the geologic fault that caused this earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

The Japanese say the powerboat repeatedly came very close to the factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, while activists tried to entangle its rudder and propeller with a rope.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

He very much loves the lads, loves going out, having a drink,having a dance, very close to his family - his father in particular - I think he's quite normal."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

That's what they say,but again, RIM has been keeping its cards very close to its chest on this matter and has not been particularly eager to address any of these issues publically.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"One of the worst things about human trafficking it is that the people who actually are the traffickers or who become the middle-men for the traffickers are very,very close to the victims of trafficking,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"The major parts of health-care reform that the president sought to have enacted as a candidate are now very close to happening and he thinks the commonality between the two proposals overlaps quite a bit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.27