Example sentences of "very nearly [adv] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's very nearly as good as Nails . |
| 2 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 3 | There seemed no real stamp of his personality anywhere , and it was very nearly as impersonal as a hotel room . |
| 4 | Their remains have now been found in rocks that are about 500 million years old , very nearly as ancient as the Burgess Shales . |
| 5 | The demands of F1 at the top are very nearly as ascetic as those imposed on jockeys . |
| 6 | The playing on the Inbal version is very nearly as refined as Marriner 's , but too often in this performance the expressive rubato sounds studied . |
| 7 | Cards on the table , Gavrilov 's reading of the first movement of the Seventh Sonata is one of the finest I 've heard — very nearly as fine as Pollini 's ( DG ) . |