nowhere near as

English translation: very much less valuable

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English term or phrase:	nowhere near as
Selected answer:	very much less valuable

11:44 Sep 26, 2009

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English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / about cyber attacks

English term or phrase: nowhere near as

"Many smaller organizations believe that their data is nowhere near as valuable as their larger counterparts."

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very much less valuable

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Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 12:26

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very much less valuable

Edith Kelly

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Yasutomo Kanazawa

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nowhere as near

very much less valuable

Explanation:
in this context

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 12:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 26

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nowhere as near See explanation below.

Explanation:
The phrase means that smaller companies are more careless with stored data on computers, CD-ROM's, floppy disks (a bit of a relic, isn't it) or in other data formats than larger companies from cyber attacks, spams, phishing, viruses, hacking, etc. The smaller companies do not consider data protection as much important than the larger companies do to protect them.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 19:26
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Japanese
PRO pts in category: 19

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18 You use nowhere near and not anywhere near to emphasize that something is not the case.
♦ nowhere near/not anywhere near phrase usu PHR adj, PHR n (emphasis) They are nowhere near good enough..., It was nowhere near as painful as David had expected...
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/nowhere near/n...

writeaway
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English

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