Example sentences of "[prep] nearly every [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
| 2 | This partly explains the desperate desire of nearly every function in the business to be represented on the board or the management committee . |
| 3 | These days you can buy fitted furniture for nearly every room in the house — the kitchen , the bedroom and even the bathroom . |
| 4 | In nearly every street in Whitechapel there was a Levy or a Cohen , an Abrahams , Moses or Grossman — sometimes living together in one area , sometimes striking out on their own . |
| 5 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 6 | If a customer is known to buy from nearly every producer in the field then it will be very difficult to establish speciality . |
| 7 | Government and EEC subsidies result in gross over-capitalization on nearly every farm in the land . |