Sentences with phrase «came close»

While much has been made of regional supermarkets such as Krogers, Wegmans, and Publix, none of their metrics came close to H - E-B with adults 18 to 34.

The Dow touched a new 4 year intraday high and the financial news media celebrated the moment with banner headlines: In spite of the fact that not one market index anywhere in the world even came close to confirming the new Dow -LSB-...]

And on more than one occasion, I came close!

Possibly the only complaint I have: I can't get a real close shave with most blades I've tried (Feather and Astra came close; I'm going to try the feathers again next week).

'» Paul Wells, Maclean's: «But somebody on the stage needed to make Notley sound like a mad statist on a rampage, and nobody came close.

The Australian dollar rose to $ 1.0400 for the day and came close to hitting its October peak of $ 1.0412.

The Manchin - Toomey bill, the only gun legislation in Congress after Sandy Hook that came close to becoming law, didn't even establish universal background checks.

Unlike its Asian neighbors, Hong Kong never came close to devaluation and economic destruction, even as China took over sovereignty amidst its own Asian flu symptoms.

When he was 21, Next 36 alumni Zack Fisch came close to losing his leg.

In 2001, the city came close to outsourcing its water and wastewater systems control in what would have been the largest private procurement of its kind in the United States.

Texas is no slouch, though, as its output came close to 4 million bpd in January.

As we explained in Don't Count on 4 % Growth, the last time the country achieved even 4 percent sustained growth was in the late 1960s and early 1970s (though we came close during the technological boom of the 1990s).

Still, outflows from both active and passive products came close to $ 4.6 billion in July, and its 12 - month outflows approached $ 180 billion.

During the bond bull market, long - term bonds actually outperformed stocks while high yield bonds came close.

Options, I have worked for many companies and came close, but my close call was stopped by one persons lack of identity or purpose.

However, USDX has never even came close to reaching its level from 1985.

I came close to a milestone figure of $ 2000 in passive income, but did not quite hit it this month.

It called for expressions of interest in sub-leasing 266,000 - hectare Hamersley Station last year and came close to reaching a deal with a private company controlled by Kerry Stokes before the process stalled.

We did use it for many events, including a week long all - company get - together in 2013, but in terms of co-working we never came close to growing into it.

Those closest to Mr. Draghi say his economic views have been shaped by his challenges at the Italian finance ministry in the 1990s, when Italy was expelled from the euro zone's predecessor, the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and, like Greece today, came close to bankruptcy.

The fragility of Italy's application — high levels of debt, runaway deficits — was underscored the next year when Italy was expelled from the exchange rate mechanism and came close to running out of money.

But she came close.

That said, the Patriots lost to the Chiefs and the Panthers once this season, and came close to losing against the Steelers as well.

The tables reveal that some signature dishes came close to our readers» benchmarks for excellence.

I realized this the other day when I came close to filling out a form on a private member men's clothing business.

If you're not remarketing to people who came close to crossing the line, you're effectively restricting yourself to just one shot at getting visitors to convert in a single session — an almost inconceivable feat in today's multi-device online environment.

We came close a couple of times, but it never quite seemed to crack.

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney had surprised many investors on Wednesday as he said the U.K.'s central bank could be required to lift interest rates as the economy came close to running at full capacity.

Gary Cohn, the director of the White House Economic Council, came close to resigning in the wake of Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer.

A strong contender that came close but couldn't beat its sibling the Thinkpad X1 Carbon as the best overall laptop.

Guess which Republican presumptive nominee came this close to having it?

As he told Inc. last year, Dunn once came close to losing everything over one mistake.

The US came close to shutting the border.

Baytex Energy came a close second, dropping 78.7 %.

«We came close to violating that pledge,» Buffett said in a video set to be distributed to Moore's dealers in mid-September, «and it'll never happen again.»

In it he restates his commitment to the dealers and concludes by saying, «We came close to violating that pledge, and it'll never happen again.»

Tipping a commodity price recovery that will boost Western Australia's economy is a game for the brave or the foolish; and while Colin Barnett came close to being one or the other yesterday, he was actually just being premature.

The companies came close to a merger deal in November before SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son pulled out of the talks at the last minute over valuation disagreements.

Some firefighters worked days on the front line, refusing to take breaks, while sheriff's dispatchers continued taking calls even as the fire came close to taking out their building.

But I came close to being lost at sea.

«I had a chance to come back in the third set but every time I came close to pegging her back, I missed the opportunity,» said the world No. 26.

Though Microsoft never came close to breaking Apple's dominance, the Zune should be remembered for being an innovator in media consumption, and pioneering streaming and subscription services.

After one such conversation Antonetti came close to admitting defeat.

After graduating in 1942, he came close to suiting up for the St. Louis Cardinals as a signed centerfielder.

Anderson and Guerrero landed a $ 700,000 order for 3,500 units, which Anderson says came close to funding Switch's operation the whole of the following year.

Not that any of the other PC manufacturers came close.

Price's athleticism and no - quit attitude has manifested in his two daughters: Nicky, 19, a lacrosse player for the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Maddy, 21, a track and field star who came close to representing Team Canada at the Rio Olympics 400 - metre event.

Sure, some other manufacturers have come along with me - too clones, but the Roomba was really the only one that came close to doing the job it was designed for.

Despite proclaiming Canada an «energy superpower,» prime minister Stephen Harper never came close to getting a new export pipeline built.

The decision by the Reserve Bank of India, announced late on Friday, came close on the heels of weak investor interest in two recent auctions that led to a spike in sovereign debt yields.