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nowhere near



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Idioms and Phrases

see under not anything like .
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“We’re nowhere near our ceiling,” he said.

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Months earlier, she argued at a city budget hearing that the fire department deals with wildfires, medical emergencies and homelessness but is “still nowhere near a sustainable level of sworn personnel to be able to respond to any emergency at a moment’s notice.”

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It's nowhere near enough for the number of people in need, leading to a scramble to grab whatever relief is available.

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I am not sure, and I don't think this game will tell us much either because they should blow Leicester away even if they are nowhere near their best.

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Last year, that figure dipped below a dozen — nowhere near enough to handle the roughly 3,000 inmate transports the department needs to do each day.

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