A near-perfect broadside shot at less than 100 yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

A near-perfect grade point average and a future in business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference

This Victorian account holds Mary blameless and near-perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

'Investigator Nikitin, you remember, had a near-perfect record.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

Excellent grades and near-perfect SAT scores are not nearly enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back In College] Reference

They were operating in a near-perfect vacuum, just as in outer space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Ferguson: 1, 2, 3, Many Tea Parties?: What the Massachusetts Senate Race May Say About the Fall Elections] Reference

Switzerlandranks No. 1 in the green index, scoring near-perfect marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not In Our Park, Mister] Reference

Part of the reason is near-perfect weather in western France last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Whine: China Pushes Bordeaux Prices Higher] Reference

What upset me most of all, was the ruining of a near-perfect makeup job.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRESS] Reference

But the president's wife was confident that a near-perfect bill was possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [How She Would Govern] Reference

The iPhone was a near-perfect mobile device a year ago when it first launched.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone] Reference

It ` s an ongoing mystery in Hollywood, men who cheat on their near-perfect women.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2008] Reference

 Raising her hand, she traced the outline of his near-perfect lips with her finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress On Demand]

The synergies between parent company BMW and Rolls-Royce are near-perfect in this car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rolls-Royce Builds a Real Car20%] Reference

And, at that moment, three hours into a near-perfect lunch, you know he is almost right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Restaurant review: Koffmann's] Reference

With 2,000 stores worldwide, Staples is a near-perfect proxy for small business spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Corporate Saviors] Reference

The daring, heroic and near-perfect rescue mission to free U.S. Captain Richard Phillips.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2009] Reference

These Hopeful Machines incorporates many elements of past albums, with near-perfect transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

We've got another near-perfect day ahead tomorrow before the heat cranks back up for a few days.    From Wordnik.com.  [PM Update: Cool tonight, near-perfect tomorrow] Reference

Kazaa/AllofMP3 provide near-perfect, complete copies of things otherwise available for purchase.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Wish Google Could Buy AllofMP3] Reference

In the wrong hands, the lunacy could have gotten out of control, but Jonze has near-perfect pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meta-Movie Madness] Reference

I dreamt the other night that I got a near-perfect score on a spelling test, mispelling "yahtzee".    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

Working with a team at MIT, the group records their live album by playing in a near-perfect vacuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will They Think of Next? Record Labels' Ridiculous Antileak Tech.] Reference

The film, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, is a near-perfect adaptation of Proulx's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Territory] Reference

The next night, she vaults even better, landing a near-perfect 9.9 at the U.S. national team trials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bounds For Glory] Reference

"Our teachers were strict that we should practice, and speak the language till we were near-perfect," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not the Queen's English] Reference

Here were two young children with shared DNA being raised apart, a near-perfect nature-versus-nurture experiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Two] Reference

By the end, their command of the language is so good that they can write flawless essays and receive near-perfect scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Up With Korea] Reference

David tracked down video stills of Stefani's dress and e-mailed them to the designers, who produced a near-perfect match.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proms Go Hollywood] Reference

And he has this healthy addiction to thank for his newfound flexibility, near-perfect posture, and boundless positive energy. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the weekend: Discover your inner yogi] Reference

If every college-bound teenager were getting near-perfect scores on the SATs, you can bet the authors of the test would be concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government watch: Stars on cars] Reference

Eighteen-year-old Jenna Tibbitts has a near-perfect GPA, and her parents can afford to send her to the four-year university of her choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junior College Squeeze] Reference

My near-perfect credit score and disposable income allowed me to live with little debt and pay down my mortgage from thirty to seven years.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Third World America' Excerpt: Unemployed Mom With MBA Rebuilds Her Life After Hurricane Katrina] Reference