closer

Most of us are closer to homelessness than becoming a billionaire.

The unfathomable idea that the track may soon close or be sold is closer to reality than ever.

The teams could not have been closer on paper.

While fire season has yet to come to an official end, a rainstorm next week is expected to help push the county closer to the precipitation levels needed to do so.

In other words, Ricardo's model barely even tried to describe economic relations in the real world, and was closer to ideological fantasy than to science.