Example sentences of "to nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , the Pub Section points the way to nearly 5,000 pubs that serve top-notch cask beer — there are more than 1,500 new entries from last year . |
| 2 | In fact doping the buckyball compound with rubidium — a larger atom than potassium — raises the critical temperature to nearly 30K . |
| 3 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Police arrested more than 200 anti-nuclear protesters at a military base in the south Australian outback yesterday , bringing the total detained to nearly 500 in three days of protests . |
| 4 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 5 | He mentioned the Home Office-led investigation of state funding of the voluntary sector ; the Department of Education 's investigation of educational support grants , about £650m worth , given to local education authorities for tasks deemed especially important ; and the Department of Social Security 's review of the shortfall of contributions to contributory benefits , amounting to nearly £500m a year . |
| 6 | The latest redundancies , 345 at Yeovil and 75 at its Bournemouth plant , bring to nearly 3,000 the jobs lost since its rescue in 1986 . |
| 7 | The poll also shows that the communist-led Leftist Unity party — capitalising on the high jobless rate and union unrest — is expected to nearly double its vote from 4.6 percent to 8.7 percent , replacing Adolfo Suarez 's centrist party as the third most powerful force in Spanish politics . |
| 8 | The proportion of the population over 60 rose to nearly 29 per cent by 1980 , most of them women . |
| 9 | The company aims to nearly quadruple sales compared with the outgoing model . |
| 10 | £80 was raised towards the Parish Project , bringing the current total raised to nearly £200 . |
| 11 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 12 | This will increase the shares on offer to the public from 23.5 per cent to nearly 30 per cent of the issue . |
| 13 | One of the main factors underpinning the share price was an anticipated shortage of water shares , because of the decision to scale down overseas allocations to increase the public offer from 23.5 to nearly 30 per cent of the offer . |
| 14 | Bilateral credits pledged to Poland and Hungary amount to nearly $1.5billion . |
| 15 | The acquisitions — and the cost of converting scores of Greenall pubs into Premier House outlets providing food and with budget accommodation — pushed up the company 's interest charge by 40 per cent to nearly £20million in the year . |
| 16 | His plea came in a speech to nearly 5,000 delegates at a congress marking the final stage of the two-year process to merge his ruling Zanu-PF party and Joshua Nkomo 's Zapu . |
| 17 | In New York , the spot price of West Texas Intermediate , the main crude traded on Wall Street , rose 35 cents to nearly $22 a barrel . |
| 18 | David and Angie came to the opening night of Pork and to nearly every night thereafter and we became really good friends . |
| 19 | The number of local Green parties had risen to nearly 270 by the end of the year and the membership had almost doubled from 9000 at the beginning of the year to 17,000 by the end . |
| 20 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 21 | The Yangtze River valley supplies 40–70 per cent of China 's annual grain harvests , and is home to nearly three-quarters of the country 's heavy industry . |
| 22 | Now that electricity has been brought to nearly all the villages , the inhabitants can cluster around a television set and see how much better things are in Bangkok . |
| 23 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 24 | Now two of them have been convicted and sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison . |
| 25 | Between 1980 and 1990 the average attendance at Britain 's 67 racecourses grew from 4,600 to 4,900 ; the number of owners from 16,400 to 18,000 ; and the number of racehorses in training from 10,650 to nearly 13,000 . |
| 26 | It obtained an injunction ordering enclosures made during the previous twenty years , amounting to nearly 3,000 acres , to be thrown down , and restraining further enclosures . |
| 27 | The bank 's annual report said ‘ debts on a level with 1991 are no longer sustainable ’ and that total public sector debt had soared to Dm1.32 trillion from Dm1.18 trillion in 1990 , corresponding to nearly half the country 's gross national product last year . |
| 28 | Mr McCulloh says the shakeout has already seen prices rise from a low of 40 cents a pound for live beef to nearly 90 cents this spring . |
| 29 | In the following decade its collection of plants increased from about 3000 to nearly 6000 , largely as a result of his correspondence with more than fifty botanists throughout the world . |
| 30 | Public borrowing rose to nearly 10 per cent of national income — equivalent to £55,000 million today . |