Example sentences of "[vb past] nearly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chapter on famous people , I was amused to see , devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints , scholars and patriots , but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber ( 1780 — 1849 ) , a noted highwayman . |
| 2 | Now that bull weighed nearly a ton , but he leapt off the ground like a bird ; hit Merry in the back and knelt down and got his horn between Merry 's legs . |
| 3 | Officers pursued nearly a hundred people who were seen chasing deer , badgers , foxes and hares across South Oxfordshire and Berkshire . |
| 4 | Historical estimates of Table 3.2 indicate most firmly the decline in the relative importance of the Primary sector , which provided nearly a quarter of all jobs in 1841 but only 4 per cent by 1961 . |
| 5 | The casual bravery of the Russian troops was no match for German massed artillery and machine-gun fire , and the Russians suffered nearly a million casualties ; the Germans had relatively few . |
| 6 | York 's fly half Andy Brown provided a cracking start , succeeding with two out of three penalties in the first eight minutes , Novos ' Richard Calman reducing the arrears with a hotly disputed penalty which passed nearly a yard wide of the target . |
| 7 | The Trust owned nearly a hundred acres , most of it along a low wooded ridge . |
| 8 | Chairman Peter Swales insists there is no more money for signings — but City made nearly a million in the last financial year and gambling now could mean the difference between success and failure . |
| 9 | During his reign Edward made nearly a thousand presentations to church livings , as many as sixty-nine in one year alone in 1304–5 . |
| 10 | These grants equalled nearly a third of all EEC grants that year for uranium prospecting ( £416,000 ) . |
| 11 | DAGENHAM Motors , the London and South East-based Ford dealer , sold nearly a fifth fewer new cars last year contributing to a fall in profits of more than a third to £2.1m . |
| 12 | Well you got nearly a mile to walk when he gets to the station . |
| 13 | A month after the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into voluntary liquidation , creditors owed nearly a third of a million pounds , met at a hotel in Thame to find out why . |
| 14 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 15 | Mary spent nearly a week working in the secret garden . |
| 16 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 17 | Chapman and Rockwell spent nearly a year in the trenches , Rockwell receiving a bad thigh wound in May 1915 . |
| 18 | And they raised nearly a hundred thousand pounds for his widow . |
| 19 | With extra exercise and lots of lapses I lost nearly a stone , and it stayed off ! |
| 20 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |
| 21 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 22 | More important , he delivered nearly a quarter of the Christian Democrats ' votes at national elections as a faithful lieutenant of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti . |
| 23 | Volvo 's over-the-counter US shares jumped more than $5 on word of a merger with Renault , while Jaguar — the object of a run-up since Ford hinted at takeover plans two weeks ago — fell nearly a dollar on word that rival General Motors will take only a minority share in the British car maker . |
| 24 | He blew nearly a pound on a taxi to get them home in comfort , and she seemed glad to hold his hand . |
| 25 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 26 | Costain shed nearly a third of its 7,500 employees last year at a cost of £6m . |
| 27 | It contained nearly a hundred pages , densely covered with rows of figures — the results of interviews with 1,072 people from Land 's End to John O'Groats . |
| 28 | The company also saw nearly a halving of complaints against it and is hoping to widen the number of people using meters . |
| 29 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 30 | As it was it took nearly a hundred men to pull him out . |