Public-sector borrowing will be around 12.6% of GDP this year and not far off it next.
ECONOMIST: Bashing the rich is bad politics and rotten economics
Which would imply that Nationwide is frequently lending not far off 100 times the value of its capital.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson talked of scoring five or six and he was not far off.
In the next generation of DNA sequencing, routine DNA analysis in the clinical setting is not far off.
Although a work of fiction, Rawles believes the reality is not far off.
The UN's estimates that there were originally around 250, 000 civilians in Tiger-controlled areas appear not far off the mark.
India, with a population of 1 billion, not far off China's 1.3 billion, has fewer than 40m wireless subscribers.
ECONOMIST: Life is getting harder for China's phone companies
Its petrol prices are now not far off America's (though other energy prices in China are still artificially low).
That is not far off the newly lean proposals bandied around in Congress.
Manufacturing accounts for about a fifth of eastern GDP, not far off western levels, and unit labour costs are lower.
ECONOMIST: But eastern and western Germany may never quite meet
Others add so much sugar that the calorie content is ultimately not far off that which they were meant to replace.
Sorger doesn't mince words, calling most major bike manufacturers "toy companies, " and looking at the numbers, he's obviously not far off.
ENGADGET: Engineering a better bicycle with DBC City Bike Design Alt
Britain's multinational companies have good productivity levels, and the best domestic firms are not far off, but smaller ones often struggle.
The price in the 80s was, inflation adjusted, not far off that.
This view is probably not far off the one held by many of Europe's mainstream conservatives, let alone parties of the far right.
It's not far off from what Janet Murguia had to say.
CNN: Commentary: 10 ugly things about the immigration debate
In the first three months of this year, the commission's model predicts growth of 0.1-0.4%, not far off the region's quarterly average of around 0.5%.
In truth, profitable programming on the Internet is not far off.
It was not quite the sudden shift from litmus red to blue of an acid being neutralised by an alkali, but it was not far off.
The potentially revolutionary impact of these technologies is not far off, and in some markets overseas, the effects are already being felt at the macro level.
FORBES: The Economist: Innovation Almost Dead. Perhaps Not So In Electricity
Perhaps the day is not far off when Ford will produce a positive effect on the market by moving up and out of the speculative grade universe.
This is not far off given the trajectory of Kickstarter.
FORBES: Kickstarter - Funding to Turn Passions into Businesses
Hopefully we're not far off from a more official debut.
ENGADGET: Acer Liquid Gallant Solo makes brief cameo, Android 4.0 smartphone lives up to its name
Then spend your last few days in the Orkney Islands, clustered not far off the mainland and reachable either via a half-day ferry or quick flight to Kirkwall.
Following a buoyant start to the year, many stock indexes around the world are near multi-year highs and the Dow Jones index is not far off its all-time record.
Because leverage with currency futures is not far off 50:1 (30:1 on the CME, for example), hedging may be easier with futures, and futures brokers must segregate assets for some protection.
Total sales in 2013 are expected to hit 16 million, not far off from an annual average of 17 million new vehicle sales in the year before the global financial crisis.
The effect is quite large too, that 0.72 of a degree is not far off the 0.8 of a degree which is said to be the total amount of anthropogenic global warming so far.
It traverses oxygen-starved, earthquake-prone terrain that for most of the way is over 4, 000 metres (13, 120 feet) above sea level and rises to 5, 072 metres not far off the altitude of Mount Everest's base camp.
应用推荐