Example sentences of "[prep] nearly [num] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This combination means tides could leap from a level of nearly five metres to over six metres and flooding could occur . |
| 2 | It was only then , for example , that John Bright , busy Member of Parliament , revealed that his stepmother , who had lived alone as a widow for nearly thirty years to the age of 95 , the last ten years blind , was visited daily by his own wife ‘ to chat with her and to cheer with her in her solitude and blindness , or to render her any help in her power . ’ |
| 3 | I have been married for nearly twenty-five years to a very nice kind Englishman . |
| 4 | It is understood that the IMF has scaled back its expectations for growth in the main industrial economies this year from nearly 3 p.c. to just under 2 p.c . |
| 5 | Overall , the number of complaints and inquiries fell by nearly 10 p.c. to 1,206 but the number of complaints was ‘ slightly above the 1990 level ’ . |