come close to

"You’d hope that both parties would come close to it, but there’s no guarantee of that… as we’ve seen we’re not very good at coming to deals."

Sierra Canyon at Mater Dei: The top-seeded Monarchs are 9-0 and no team has come close to even scaring them.

To say that this election is extraordinary or anomalous or unprecedented, while clearly true, doesn’t come close to capturing the bizarre alternate-universe quality of this entire episode in our nation’s history.

Fortunately, Financial Times writer and American editor Edward Luce has come close to doing just that in his Oct.

The results indicated that even if every chimp in the world was enlisted and able to type at a pace of one key per second until the end of the universe, they wouldn't even come close to typing out the Bard's works.