Close to and Long way

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Close to adverb - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct.

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Long way and close to are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Long way" instead an adverb phrase "Close to".

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Close to and long way are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Close to" instead an adverb "Long way".

She had developed, mastered, and named the technique decades ago and Soifon has in fact still got a long way to go before she comes even close to genuinely mastering the technique.

Source: I Am Not Left-Handed
Genetics is also still a field that is undergoing extensive continued research and is nowhere close to being explained completely yet (although we certainly have come a long way since Mendel's experiments with peas).

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There are plenty of radiation sources in China and Japan far closer to the Philippines than the Kanto region, Yucca mountain was never operational nor that close to Las Vegas, and all three creatures take the long way from their respective positions to end up in San Francisco.

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