Nearly in example sentence

It works neither because of nor in spite of whom Preston Tucker really was, but because he has been remade in the film to represent something larger--the postwar optimism that buoyed the nation for nearly two decades after the end of WWII.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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