Example sentences of "[conj] nearly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashbourne had about 25 yards , whose houses provided shelter for some 750 people , or nearly a quarter of the town 's inhabitants . |
| 2 | Erm , they have n't said , because at the moment , it 's , it 's at the end of one lease , or nearly the end of one lease , with some small horror stories in there of sorts , and I think it 's got to come on |
| 3 | Success of the PC as an engineering tool must in part be due to its expansion bus and the fact that nearly every type of facility can be found on a PC card . |
| 4 | Another very important principle also is that these erm the relationship between the ultimate good — G I call it — and these subordinate ones is non-linear as a mathematician would say , that is that nearly every virtue becomes a vice if you have too much of it , you see . |
| 5 | Knowing that nearly every parish in the country had their own guild or fraternity at one time , it is all the more frustrating to learn that little exists from the once vast stock of pre-Reformation funerary artefacts . |
| 6 | These were furnished with fountains , seats , grass and trees and were so organized that nearly every quartier of Paris could give its inhabitants a place for relaxation . |
| 7 | The Ethical Investment Research and Information Service ( EIRIS ) , an independent organisation which advises investors on the activities of companies , has found that nearly a quarter of Britain 's major companies breached the limitations on discharges into rivers and waterways on numerous occasions in the last three years . |
| 8 | I went , reinforced by my experience at the long X-ray session and the fact that nearly a month had transpired since the photos were taken . |
| 9 | Although nearly every person in the country wears jeans , I think there are quite a few who should n't ! ’ |
| 10 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 11 | The result is a beautiful leisure park , one and a half miles long and nearly a mile wide , in the middle of the Danube . |
| 12 | From the North Rim , the Colorado river at the centre is invisible , still more than 12 miles away and nearly a mile down . |
| 13 | However , it was not to be ; the Edison company preferred to market the phonograph as a dictation machine , and nearly a decade went by before cylinder moulding became a commercial reality . |
| 14 | To top things off , she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go , and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like . |
| 15 | Well over a quarter are aged under 20 years , of whom nearly 30 per cent are still at school , and nearly a quarter of all those in the labour force who are under 20 are working on a temporary basis . |
| 16 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 17 | This is also quite impossible nearly all restaurant meals are very low in fibre content and nearly every dish varies in calorie content from restaurant to restaurant . |
| 18 | and nearly every day , nearly every speaker actually attacked Local Government in some way . |
| 19 | and nearly every day , nearly every speaker actually attacked Local Government in some way . |
| 20 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |
| 21 | For the most part everybody likes a child , and nearly every child likes everybody — ’ At this point , Joey 's voice was heard to croon quietly . |
| 22 | The weather was bitterly cold , and because there was no heating in Dana 's little room he used to spend all day , and nearly every night , in my warm apartment . |
| 23 | Telephonists , receptionists , accounts people , recruiters and nearly every employee are part of the design , part of the totality . |
| 24 | He would invite me over for dinner quite often , and nearly every time they 'd have a fight . |
| 25 | He regards PR as a crucial issue and when told that one of its main criticisms is that it produces indecisive government , he came out with that wonderfully ironic comment — ‘ like the weak old government in Switzerland and in Germany and nearly the whole of Europe ’ . |
| 26 | It differs from the Biogas specimen in the shape of the dorsal arm spines , which appear to be equal and nearly an arm segment long . |
| 27 | The judges ' first meeting was not held until nearly a fortnight after their appointment , and even then the only business was the election of a chairman . |
| 28 | He had not realized the impact on him until nearly a year later he found himself shaking and crying and saying to himself , ‘ I was nearly killed there ’ . |
| 29 | David did not in fact begin to relax his reserve until nearly a week after the telegram had arrived , when Julia judged it a suitable moment to say that she and Anthony would be making other plans for Easter . |
| 30 | Until nearly the end of the Middle Ages fortification was still necessary , for monasteries ( Mont S. Michel , for example ) , for castles and palaces and even for bridges . |