Example sentences of "nearly [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , according to an opinion poll this month , nearly 90% of Ossis ( easterners ) feel like second-class citizens in the united country they voted and demonstrated for . |
| 2 | Poll on poll has suggested that over half the population believes abortion should be legal as a matter of course , and that nearly 90% say it should be legal in certain cases . |
| 3 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 4 | Comparing this figure with the estimate of 614450 derived from the childhood supplement implies that nearly 90% of the unoccupied children are in the most disadvantaged group of one parent families . |
| 5 | Of the 53% against , nearly 90% were sole practitioners . |
| 6 | At a time when the national income was little more than £2 billion a coal production loss of nearly £100 million and a total loss of nearly £250 million had been incurred . |
| 7 | In the financial year just ended , Government finances finished nearly £14 billion in the red as the recession eroded tax receipts and the cost of paying unemployment benefit soared . |
| 8 | The capping has brought down the poll tax bill in the borough to £339.22 , a reduction of nearly £14 . |
| 9 | Phil Barrett , directorate manager of women 's and children 's health at Warrington District General Hospital , said people 's generosity meant that nearly 100pc of the special baby care unit 's equipment was donated . |
| 10 | By the time Madeleine remembered to go and check the box it was nearly lunch-time and she was making hors d'oeuvres with one hand and pouring apéritifs with the other . |
| 11 | It was nearly lunch-time when Miranda came home . |
| 12 | It 's nearly afternoon already . |
| 13 | The losses for the bottom 50% average out at nearly £8.50 per family … while the top 10% have gained nearly £40 per family … the bottom half of the population has lost £6.6 billion , of which £5.6 billion has gone to the top 10% ; indeed –4. – billion has gone to the top 5% . |
| 14 | I have substantially increased the roads and transport programme by nearly £40 million or 10 per cent . |
| 15 | Approach is expected to have sales of nearly $20m this year ; it was founded in 1990 by former executives of Claris and Oracle Corp . |
| 16 | However , development costs were so high for such a machine that its final price tag was nearly $20M . |
| 17 | In an idealized three-dimensional numerical simulation of the Northern Hemisphere winter stratosphere , doubling the CO 2 concentration leads to the formation of an Arctic ozone hole comparable to that observed over Antarctica , with nearly 100% local depletion of lower-stratospheric ozone . |
| 18 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 19 | Religion : Christian ( nearly 100% , overwhelmingly Roman Catholic ) . |
| 20 | Religion : Islam ( nearly 100% — majority Sunni Moslems ) ; Hinduism , Sikhism and Judaism . |
| 21 | To approach the ideal of nearly 100% pass at low frequencies , the circuit must be designed such that . |
| 22 | The comparable figure , it said , for optical fibres was nearly £2000 . |
| 23 | SKY TV will splash nearly £6million in the next four weeks on a lavish advertising campaign to sell the Premier League — even though their £304million deal with the League is not yet signed . |
| 24 | A pre-tax profit of nearly $42m for the quarter represents an improvement of almost $71m in what is traditionally a difficult winter quarter . |
| 25 | Coal dominated the Chinese energy economy in 1983 accounting for nearly 80% of consumption and coal will remain China 's energy staple . |
| 26 | In 1983 , nearly 80% of the gas consumed was indigenous , the major import being USSR gas together with smaller amounts from Algeria and Libya . |
| 27 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 28 | The SOLVD prevention study included 4220 patients , nearly 80% of whom had history of myocardial infarction , with ejection fractions equal to or less than 35% . |
| 29 | ‘ Opposition ’ states now embrace 58% of the population and nearly 80% of GNP . |
| 30 | Amongst two partner firms , in contrast , there was a clear majority in favour of some form of restriction , while amongst respondents from ‘ medium ’ and ‘ large ’ firms ( here defined broadly as firms with 3–10 and over 10 partners respectively ) nearly 80% answered the question negatively . |