Example sentences of "by nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after their meeting he published an account of Venetian painters of the Renaissance , where he acknowledged ‘ his indebtedness to the first systematic writers on Italian painting no less than to the perfectors of the new critical method , now adopted by nearly all serious students of Italian art ’ . |
| 2 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 3 | The service is provided by nearly 80 special screening centres throughout England — at hospitals , clinics or mobile units . |
| 4 | Then came Arsenal 's unforgettable finale at Anfield in May , watched by nearly 12 million people ( more than the BBC got for the FA Cup final ) . |
| 5 | Since the beginning of this week Jaguar 's shares have risen by 161p — increasing its stock market value by nearly £300m . |
| 6 | Hi-Tec Sports is the UK market leader in sports shoes but trading profit margins were reduced by nearly four percentage points to 10 per cent on turnover of £36.84m , up from £32.93m . |
| 7 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 8 | Within five years there were over 4000 smallholders participating in the scheme , and their marketed output had increased by nearly three times over previous levels . |
| 9 | Even worse hit was Nissan , with September sales down by nearly a half from 11,871 to 6058 . |
| 10 | UK new cars sales plunged by nearly 26 per cent in February in what was described by a spokesman for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders as ‘ the biggest month-on-month February drop I can remember . ’ |
| 11 | For those who did choose healthy alternatives , the most popular product was low-fat margarine used by nearly half the sample , followed by skimmed milk used by 40% . |
| 12 | Krasner outlived her husband by nearly 30 years and went on working as a considerable painter in her own right until 1984 . |
| 13 | West Germany said yesterday it had agreed to cut its armed forces by nearly a fifth to 400,000 by the mid 1990s if US and Soviet negotiators agreed on cutting conventional arms . |
| 14 | The interim dividend is being boosted by nearly half although the final payment is weightier . |
| 15 | At Poole the contingent of reporters , sent out to jog the nation 's memory into reliving the disaster , outnumbered legitimate travellers by nearly four to one . |
| 16 | Tate & Lyle 's 1989 profits rose by 67 per cent to £200 million and earnings per share by nearly a third to 31.6p . |
| 17 | Travelling south along the lake-side road , through the village of Bowness ( rightly pronounced Bowness by the locals , and Boness by nearly everybody else ) , the scenery becomes more dramatic , the villas more sparsely spaced and hidden among the maturity of their Edwardian planting . |
| 18 | In fact , the World Bank believes that aid to black Africa ( now running at about £10 billion a year , the same figure as that which caused Community jaws to drop when suggested by Jacques Delors for Eastern Europe ) needs to increase by nearly 50 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 19 | Exports , at Z$1.5 billion , would fall by nearly a third . |
| 20 | Julius Baer recently announced that its profits fell by nearly a fifth last year , to SFr35m ( $28m ) , thanks largely to lower commissions on share deals . |
| 21 | With bookings down dramatically in reaction to the Gulf war , TWA is to cut European flights by nearly half and lay off 2,500 people . |
| 22 | This big book contains 140 essays by nearly as many authors . |
| 23 | If that rose even to 1.5 , travel times would drop by nearly a quarter and pollution by around a fifth . |
| 24 | From 1982 to 1989 the debts of non-financial firms in America rose by nearly 12% a year , way ahead of the 8.3% average annual growth for the previous three decades . |
| 25 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 26 | During the 1980s , although the population grew by more than 2% a year ( see box ) , real GNP grew by nearly 6% , well up from the 3.5% a year in the first three decades of independence . |
| 27 | In real terms , median black family income in the mid-west has fallen by nearly a third in the past 20 years , from $24,690 to $17,400 . |
| 28 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 29 | The time for the race — 9 minutes 1.9 seconds — beat the previous record ( Golden Miller in 1934 ) by nearly twenty seconds and was to stand until 1990 . |
| 30 | Oxford led by nearly a length at Barnes Bridge , though they could not get away . |