So the first week was pretty much spent just getting as close as we could, every day a little closer, a little closer, a little closer.

The time has come for working much closer together across the geographical groupings.

But if we detect those earliest moments, it'll bring us that much closer to an understanding of the Big Bang, which brings us that much closer to asking some of the hardest, most elusive, questions.

The 2003 elections increased this to 38.5 , much closer to the 2004 target figure.

In slightly older age groups, the unemployment rates are much closer to those of other women.

It's getting closer and closer, and in 20 ...

You get them closer and closer and closer and then at some point the strong force grips them together.

And gradually, we hopefully move closer and closer to understanding the world.

But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes, on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.

It was also important to pay closer attention to how resources were spent, to how much was actually reaching the recipients, and to the effectiveness of delivery.

It gets closer and closer 40,000 years ago, we're still doing cave paintings.

It brings us that much closer to realizing the full potential of choice, to inspiring the hope and achieving the freedom that choice promises but doesn't always deliver.

Although it's closer, I heard this morning, it's closer than I thought it was.

That's getting closer.

He's coming closer.

You know, our ability to capture the tools of creation is getting closer and closer.

So it's much closer, in a way, to a data fungus, in a sense, wrapped around that page, than it is to a deliberate link that I've placed there.

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away.

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away.

A little bit closer.

OK, a little bit closer.

A Step Closer to Brexit?

The new year drew closer.

He found it a little strange that the European Union was more interested in the accession of Turkey than in that of Bosnia and Herzegovina, even though the latter was much closer.

And what is exciting to me so much right now is that by combining cutting edge technology robotics, bionics with the age old poetry, we are moving closer to understanding our collective humanity.

Rather, the opposite is needed massive economic and political investment, and closer cooperation. Dealing with Ukraine will take patience and perseverance, but there is too much at stake to choose any other path.

Training, job creation and other measures aimed at general growth in post conflict situations must be subject to much closer cooperation with the international financial institutions and the United Nations funds and programmes.

They're far closer together than that.

Come in a little bit closer.

Then he approached and came closer,

Then he approached and came closer,

Dokdo is situated midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan s main island, roughly 115 nautical miles from each. But the islets are much closer to the nearest Korean island, Ulleungdo, than to Japan s Okishima.

And we will begin to actually deeply influence our health and our intelligence, as we get closer and closer to this technology.

The moon was closer things were different.

Both black holes are getting closer together.

I think it's closer to a billion.

But the information was closer to me.

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Then he drew near and drew closer

Then he drew near and drew closer

Your ruin has come close, still closer.

Your ruin has come close, still closer.

Then We brought the two parties closer.

Then We brought the two parties closer.

On one hand, we stand to lose one of the Earth s largest and most significant ecosystems. On the other hand, the once fabled northeast and northwest passages will reduce shipping times and costs by as much as half, bringing China and Japan much closer to Europe and North America s east coast.