Example sentences of "nearly [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rehearsals were nearly complete and a replacement for her was out of the question at such short notice . |
| 2 | Last year there were nearly eight and a half thousand road accidents in Oxfordshire . |
| 3 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 4 | Nearly 1,200 and a petition of 467 names objected . |
| 5 | The two thousand million pages printed annually by the European institutions cost nearly three and a half thousand million Belgian Francs [ about £47 million Sterling ] and entail the destruction of thirteen thousand trees . |
| 6 | Lowthorpe is a small elongated village , situated five miles northeast of Driffield , which stretches southwards for nearly three and a half miles across the plain of Holderness . |
| 7 | My husband and I own two Rough Collies — Goldie , who is nearly ten and a rescued Collie , Chloe Joe . |
| 8 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 9 | Nearly one and a half millennia later their skills were tellingly displayed in the decoration of Tutankhamun 's golden coffin ( Plate H ) . |
| 10 | Public spending in the USA is higher than in the UK ; the US spends nearly one and a half times that amount in addition on private medical benefits , yet health outcomes in the two countries are broadly comparable . |
| 11 | Because of the width of the cabin , nearly five and a half feet , it follows that there is plenty of room to accommodate all this without the panel becoming cluttered . |
| 12 | I have now been retired for nearly five and a half years . |
| 13 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 14 | It was nearly two and a half years since Hamish had walked out on Daisy and she could no longer claim to be madly in love with him , but she missed the presence of a man in her life , and her self-confidence was in tatters . |
| 15 | Between September nineteen forty one and June nineteen forty two , nearly two and a half million homes had been damaged or destroyed . |
| 16 | Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ? |
| 17 | I 've put on nearly two and a half stone |
| 18 | It is a great pity that not one member of the Liberal Democratic party could be bothered to attend the European Standing Committee this morning , where we debated those matters for nearly two and a half hours . |
| 19 | That does I think form a significant element because it makes a difference of nearly two and a half thousand dwellings . |
| 20 | Nearly two and a half thousand jobs are to go in the motor industry , the majority at Ford , the remainder at Vauxhall . |
| 21 | The UK car market has plummted from a peak in 1992 when nearly two and a half milklion vehicles were sold . |
| 22 | My children have been quite improperly denied their home , family and friends for nearly two and a half years , and I , and others , have been falsely accused of abusing them . |
| 23 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 24 | Nearly four and a half |
| 25 | In total , we estimate that next year , police and fire pensions will cost , gross , nearly seven and a half million pounds . |