Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] nearly a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 2 | She had been living in Crow Court off Vetch Street for nearly a week , and the narrow lives of the people among whom she found herself appalled her . |
| 3 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 4 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 5 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |