Below you will find example sentences with "anywhere near". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Anywhere Near in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: anywhere
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 20
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "anywhere near" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as allowing you anywhere near the field, are not anywhere near as widely, let, doesn and down stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with avenue near, highway near, located near and get anywhere, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with anywhere near
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Britain shouldn’t be anywhere near these countries on the list. (11 words)
And why was someone of such a low rank anywhere near Top Secret? (13 words)
Granted, promotion from League One is not worth anywhere near the amount that gaining elevation from the Championship. (18 words)
He said: “What we find when we break down the numbers is that our gap between learners who are disadvantaged in terms of their family income against non-disadvantaged – we have not closed that gap anywhere near enough and in some cases it has grown. (45 words)
A single city of Czarnians may not be anywhere near as dire as the entire world of them that Lobo laid waste to, but it is still going to be a far graver concern than what the DC Universe usually faces. (41 words)
At the same time, his contrition was swift and genuine and, in the heat of the moment, in a physical and sometimes brutal sport, his action doesn’t register anywhere near the top of the list of evil rugby deeds. (40 words)
And why was someone of such a low rank anywhere near Top Secret? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
A guy who runs a gambling casino on the Oneida Nation in New York doesn’t live anywhere near Alaska.
Ally McCoist has doubled down on his stance - insisting he still wouldn't let the star "anywhere near his daughters".
And so it is busier, there is more foot traffic, but it's not anywhere near what it needs to be to support the business community that's downtown right now," Ullom said.
And why was someone of such a low rank anywhere near Top Secret?
A single city of Czarnians may not be anywhere near as dire as the entire world of them that Lobo laid waste to, but it is still going to be a far graver concern than what the DC Universe usually faces.
At the same time, his contrition was swift and genuine and, in the heat of the moment, in a physical and sometimes brutal sport, his action doesn’t register anywhere near the top of the list of evil rugby deeds.
Because I am not allowing you, if I have one say, and if I have an idea about what to do about football, I am not allowing you anywhere near the field this year.
Britain shouldn’t be anywhere near these countries on the list.
But having seen and heard clips over the years of Brand incontrovertibly saying what he said, and having read much of his bookie-wook, then my response is, he is not coming anywhere near my daughter.
But just to help even the score in your “who’s right” game — cartons are not anywhere near as widely recycled as, say, aluminum cans.
By his own admission he wasn’t performing anywhere near the level he was capable of before - that was due to the injury.
Certainly, CBS will be pumping this angle into pulp if he’s anywhere near the lead come the weekend.
Dr McCreery concedes that this would be "tricky" because the King would have to stay well clear of Australian politics - he could not, for example, go anywhere near an opinion on the Voice.
From what I can tell, it does not get anywhere near the resources inside these companies of let’s scale the model.
Granted, promotion from League One is not worth anywhere near the amount that gaining elevation from the Championship.
He exclusively told the Glasgow Times: “Getting anywhere near my home is pretty much impossible between 8am and 7pm.
He hardly let my mom take a break to go buy a few food items and wouldn’t let the hospice nurse anywhere near him for a bath.
He mentioned food costs have risen between five and seven per cent, and “I don’t think anyone got a wage increase anywhere near that,” Clendening said.
Here is a small sampling of problems that were not anywhere near the scope of Emma Bushnell’s job description as an executive assistant at a law firm, yet filled her daily conversations thanks to gossipy colleagues.
He said: “What we find when we break down the numbers is that our gap between learners who are disadvantaged in terms of their family income against non-disadvantaged – we have not closed that gap anywhere near enough and in some cases it has grown.