Example sentences of "nearly [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was nearly lunch-time when Miranda came home . |
| 3 | It 's nearly afternoon already . |
| 4 | Aye going going flat out you know they 're er heavy rains the machines are going flat out er at the s one night I I sat I sat er all night and ne nearly part of next day at side of one of governors , to make sure it did n't shift no more than a about a sixteenth of an inch . |
| 5 | Ooh no no ooh but it 's nearly tea time |
| 6 | This can be the case with ivory , which is pretty nearly tooth material . |
| 7 | It was nearly daylight by the time we reached the summit . |
| 8 | It was nearly daylight . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're nearly outa gas . |
| 10 | For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current . |
| 11 | After all , it was nearly lunch time . |
| 12 | But it 's nearly lunch time . |
| 13 | For the same reasons , FELs can generate high quality , nearly diffraction limited , optical beams . |
| 14 | It was nearly winter in the Antarctic . |
| 15 | It was nearly dinner-time . |
| 16 | ‘ Come on , lazybones , it 's nearly dinner-time , ’ Otley scolded when he brought me some tea up . |
| 17 | ‘ But it 's nearly dinner-time ! |
| 18 | this is a very ancient snail with a flat nearly disc like form , with fine growth lines and occasional courser knobs . |
| 19 | For nearly half-an-hour nothing happened , no sound broke the torpid silence of the village citadel . |
| 20 | I must stop now , because it 's nearly teatime , but I 'll write again very soon , and please write to me , because I miss you every minute . |
| 21 | England and Ireland is nearly whatsername , is that any good ? |
| 22 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 23 | It 's terribly late , too — nearly midnight . |
| 24 | It was , by this time , nearly midnight . |
| 25 | It 's nearly midnight here . ’ |
| 26 | A few days later , at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year , Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Norcombe Hill . |
| 27 | Some of the farmers were working till nearly midnight when it was harvest time you know . |
| 28 | ‘ It is nearly midnight , after all . |
| 29 | She had telephoned at nearly midnight to tell him I was n't very well and he should call before office hours in the morning to cheer me up , but he was n't back . |
| 30 | I was with five other people from eight-thirty until nearly midnight . |