Example sentences of "nearly [det] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 2 | Britain is a major market for US plywood — about a million cubic metres of the stuff comes across the Atlantic every year , nearly half of all the plywood we import . |
| 3 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 4 | At the beginning of 1990/91 , under the leadership of Brian Eyre , the businesses came into being with nearly half of all the personnel transferring to business units . |
| 5 | I have also seen the important comments of the CBI , which set out the fact that Britain now attracts nearly half of all the inward investment from Japan that comes to the European Community . |