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The UK is "tantalisingly" close to winning the battle against swine flu, the chief medical officer says.

Archive 2009-09-10 2009

Not until an unpleasant looking man with an ugly looking gun shouted at him in a language that he felt he should understand, but whose meaning hovered tantalisingly just out of reach.

Together « A Fly in Amber 2010

That is an obvious frustration when in the half hour before his dismissal the Frenchman had linked well with Zamora and Adel Taarabt, the triumvirate that Hughes is counting on to get QPR out of trouble so that they can pursue the more lofty ambitions that their manager believes are tantalisingly within reach.

Mick McCarthy confident Wolves owner won't visit dressing room again 2012

You are warned that some of the art from an alien spaceship has escaped; you are advised to keep watching the shadows; given a code of gestures; you glimpse video of Matt Smith which tantalisingly breaks up as he is in the middle of issuing vital instructions; underfoot you will feel the cindery rubble of a 21st-century crash site and the soft, matted straw from a place in the 19th-century.

That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review 2011

Day one of Wimbledon, when the courts are still a glistening green suede and a fortnight of glorious sunshine remains at least a theoretical possibility, and the nation's hopes of a different result this year – despite decades' of bitter experience – are still tantalisingly alive.

Wimbledon day one: champagne, umbrellas and British hopes dashed 2011

If the dipping sauce tastes tantalisingly familiar, that will be because it's not as you might expect soy sauce, but its distant cousin, Worcestershire, which has been a feature of Cantonese menus since the mid 19th century.

Norwich's 10 best budget eats 2011

Bottom 11th: The count goes full for Mike Napoli who drives tantalisingly between the fielders in right and center field.

Detroit Tigers v Texas Rangers - live! | Steve Busfield 2011

In terms of seats this would leave the SNP tantalisingly close to a Holyrood majority and thus the prospect of a referendum on independence.

Labour needs to challenge Alex Salmond – and quickly | Kevin McKenna 2011

God comes to the plate and comes close to a home run - the ball tantalisingly drops over Hart's glove but comes off the fence.

Milwaukee Brewers vs. St Louis Cardinals - live! | Steve Busfield 2011

The tantalisingly poignant twist to the tale of the idiom's first celebrated individual musician is that no one knows what he sounded like, since he ceased musical activity 10 years before the first jazz recording was made – although some contemporaries alleged that his playing was in fact captured on a wax cylinder but never unearthed.

Buddy Bolden 'invents' jazz 2011