I didn't get halfway through the quick once-over before I came up with an answer: damned close indeed.

This wasn't as bad as a history lesson, but it was a damned close second.

To change the subject-yes, since you know already, it was a damned close thing.

And you had a damned close call, the last time you were outside this house.

But Elizabeth knew she was damned close to doing just that.

The guy did paintings that were damned close to some of the murder scenes.

It's a damned close horizon, Gorov thought as he studied it.

"And keep a damned close watch on the drift compass."

Now they're here, and they were damned close to us most of the way across while you were dozing.

If not quite grown to term, it—no, she—was damned close to it, Miles guessed.