1.   I am very reluctant to go so far when we - or rather you - could be so near a better resolution.

2.   I was glad that it was so near election time.

3.   But he was very happy to be so near the hills because he loved them.

4.   Jensen knew about the potential hazards of being so near the fault when he carved his winery from an abandoned rock-crushing plant.

5.   Military tension in the Koreas often hurts the yen because Japan is so near the peninsula.

6.   Military tension on the Korean peninsula often hurts the yen because Japan is so near the region.

7.   On one occasion, they said, Wang was so near that American pilots could see an e-mail address he held up on a piece of paper.

8.   The article said Bush officials had complained about holding a debate on the UMass campus because it is so near the library of a Democratic president.

9.   The mountains, so huge and so near, climb into the clouds and are veined with snow.

10.   Being so near the Afghan border could pose a security problem, however.