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Example sentences for "near approach"

  • Here then we have a near approach to the single case as yet known of this grass producing in a state of nature (in Germany) perfect flowers which yielded a copious supply of fruit.

  • None of the species, however, when insects were excluded, made a near approach to full fertility.

  • Consequently the tail- coverts and tail-feathers of this species of Polyplectron make a near approach in structure and ornamentation to the corresponding feathers of the peacock.

  • Nevertheless we have a near approach to close sexual similarity or dissimilarity throughout several groups: and this, from what has just been said of the fluctuating nature of inheritance, is a somewhat surprising circumstance.

  • If sheep are in the open, and on level ground, they will not permit a near approach.

  • They moved away slowly at my near approach, stopping now and then to watch me or to feed.

  • Within a few weeks after my homecoming the Pegs would permit my near approach as they had done before I went away.

  • But as the telescope had not then been invented, this may have been merely a near approach of the two planets.

  • This would indicate a near approach to the earth.

  • Another case of near approach to the earth was that of Biela's comet at its appearance in 1805.

  • Her eyelids involuntarily contracted, so that she might see her callers on a near approach to them.

  • And Mr. Overtop had settled into the opinion that Miss Pillbody was a near approach to that imagined paragon--a sensible woman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    along the; among them; earning money; frequently mentioned; grown person; had learnt; hollow place; near approach; near relation; nearly allied; nearly always; nearly cold; nearly done; nearly equivalent; nearly every; nearly level; nearly perfect; nearly pure; nearly smooth; nearly spherical; nearly straight; nearly the; nearly three; nothing can; spirit and; such matters