Example collocations logo

Nearly in sentence

4964 examples of Nearly in a sentence

They carried out this huge survey of mothers and ended up recording the birth of nearly every baby born in England, Scotland and Wales in one week.
That was nearly 14,000 babies.
Nearly 40 years later, Khmer classical dance has been revived to new heights.
Roald Amundsen had spent nearly two years preparing his Arctic expedition.
By the early 20th century, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations remaining: the North Pole, deep in the frozen waters of the Arctic region, and the South Pole, nestled within a recently discovered icy continent in the vast Antarctic Ocean.
Once again, I wound up in solitary confinement for stabbing another prisoner nearly 30 times.
Under Roman rule, “dry cheese” or “caseus aridus,” became an essential ration for the nearly 500,000 soldiers guarding the vast borders of the Roman Empire.
Spartacus nearly managed to reach Crassus before being cut down by centurions.
I haven't given a talk in nearly four months.
We're nearly there.
And I'm going to suggest to you that's not nearly enough, in just a moment.
According to Project Drawdown, one billion fewer people could mean we avoid nearly 120 billion tons of emissions.
I see," he nearly whispered, as if he'd found a shiny penny or a dead baby bird.
I had never thought of being a writer, didn't even read, in earnest, until I was nearly 23.
Every given project, for me, is an opportunity to create more green cracks through this concrete jungle by using landscape architecture as a solution, like turning this concrete roof into an urban farm, which can help absorb rain; reduce urban heat island and grow food in the middle of the city; reuse the abandoned concrete structure to become a green pedestrian bridge; and another flood-proof park at Thammasat University, which nearly completes the biggest green roof on an academic campus yet in Southeast Asia.
My time is nearly up.
We nearly went extinct.
The militias began to hunt down Muslims, and emptied the capital, Bangui, of nearly 140,000 Muslims in just a few months.
They adapt Whirlwind to a massive air defense system, deploy it all across the frozen north, and spend nearly three times as much on this computer as was spent on the Manhattan Project building the A-Bomb in the first place.
A woman in New Orleans saved nearly 4,000 dollars using our data.
A San Francisco contributor saved nearly 1,300 dollars by putting away his insurance card and paying cash.
For nearly a century, ten inkblots like these have been used as what seems like an almost mystical personality test.
That day, nearly a quarter million people gathered on the national mall to demand an end to the discrimination, segregation, violence, and economic exclusion black people still faced across the United States.
For more than 10 years, I and two million people back home have been living in darkness, locked between two borders that are nearly impossible to leave, literally, in an area that spans 25 miles long and about five miles wide.
That's what you're seeing today, where nearly 400 girls have not gone through FGM in my village, in a region where nearly 80 percent of women have been cut.
Today, doctors, therapists and the nearly 10-billion- dollar-a-year self-help industry are all advocating against the idea of perfection under this guise that somehow not trying to be perfect will save your self-esteem and protect your ego.
The guy was able to accurately deliver a nine-and-a-half inch ball through an 18-inch rim that's suspended 10 feet in the air from nearly 24 feet away almost 80 times without failure.
In Montreal, for example, despite millions of dollars being spent to support resettlement efforts, nearly 50 percent of newcomers still don't know that there are free resources that exist to help them with everything from filling out paperwork to finding a job.
I am a white, able-bodied guy sitting nearly at the peak of privilege mountain.
Problems from weeds, weed control, cost Montana nearly 200 million dollars a year.
BackNext