Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 2 | The Slovak National Party ( SNS ) saw its share of the vote collapse from nearly 14 per cent in the June Slovak National Council election to barely 3 per cent . |
| 3 | His family , he told me , had been in the bakery business for nearly 50 years since his grandmother started selling cakes from her front room . |
| 4 | In one scientific experiment it was found that a daily increase of log of dietary fibre , by the addition of more fruit , vegetables and wholemeal bread to an ordinary Western diet , increased the number of calories excreted in a bowel movement by nearly go . |
| 5 | It was a strongly-built castle on an excellent defensive site and the garrison of thirty knights was able to hold out against Richard 's artillery train for nearly two months , but eventually its lord , Arnald de Boville , was forced to capitulate . |
| 6 | The Centre Party , led by Esko Aho , increased its share of the vote by nearly half to 24.8 per cent and its seat total by nearly one-third to 55 . |
| 7 | George Eastham backed by the PFA took Newcastle United to court for ‘ unjustifiable restraint on trade ’ and won the case , although significantly the logical implications of the judgement in respect of full freedom of contract for players was resisted by the Football League for nearly another twenty years . |
| 8 | The Canadian dollar fell by nearly a cent against the US dollar in nervous overnight trading once media reports of his imminent resignation circulated on world financial markets . |
| 9 | The Stroud district of Gloucestershire was well developed ‘ Stroudwaters ’ having been a household name for nearly a century . |
| 10 | It was a job he seemed to be going after with a vengeance , despite the fact that the sizzling summer temperatures did n't exactly encourage the use of much firewood , and the lodge had not had a winter season for nearly ten years . |
| 11 | Miss Olive Newson , who retired from the Sports Council in September 1983 has been associated with the Medau Society for nearly 30 years . |
| 12 | A capacity crowd of nearly 6,500 — including King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia — went wild as their 28-year-old world champion went for her own golden bid . |
| 13 | Thus , in a number of stages during the 1980s , the Conservatives cut the basic rate of income tax by nearly a quarter ( from 33p to 25p in the £ ) while the top rate was reduced by more than half . |
| 14 | However , it was reported on Dec. 12-14 that Saudi Arabia had made an exceptional cash payment of nearly £2,000 million to make up the difference . |
| 15 | Interviews and observations carried out during a long-term follow-up study in fifty classrooms revealed that the classroom practice of nearly 50 per cent of the respondents had not changed in any perceptible way as a result of their attendance at such courses . |
| 16 | I have substantially increased the roads and transport programme by nearly £40 million or 10 per cent . |
| 17 | With UK production holding up , the firm predicted that total European production in the North Sea would reach a record average of nearly 4.4 million bpd in 1993 . |
| 18 | Looking further ahead , Exmoor Dual 's zeros are 185p and have a projected redemption price of 489p at 31 August 2001 — equivalent to a yearly gross redemption yield of nearly 10.5 p.c . |
| 19 | The company achieved a net cash inflow of nearly £400,000 in the second half of the year , leaving it with £1m in cash and no borrowings . |
| 20 | Liber was already a major schoolbook publisher and its acquisition of Almqvist & Wiksell Läromedel as part of the Esselte deal took its share of the Swedish textbook market to nearly 65% . |
| 21 | For Denny has been on the local comedy circuit for nearly a decade and was a runner-up in the Scouseology Awards two years ago . |
| 22 | The decline in world interest rates , the slight improvement in commodity prices and the relative weakness of the dollar ( the unit in which nearly all debts were denominated ) meant that the total burden of interest and capital payments now represented about 26 per cent of total export revenues for the 20 most severely indebted middle-income countries which between them accounted for 44 per cent of world debt ; this compared with a debt service ratio of nearly 50 per cent in 1983 . |
| 23 | Spare sails , half a ton of flour , 1000 litres of fuel and enough toilet paper for nearly a year . |
| 24 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 25 | Unemployment stood at 9.8 per cent , industrial output was down and a 1990 hard-currency trade surplus of nearly US$4,000 million was expected to turn into a $1,000 million deficit in 1991 . |
| 26 | In the same year he joined British Gas Southern as a driver in the transport section he has now nearly completed thirty four years ' service with British Gas and has been a member of this trade union for nearly thirty four years . |
| 27 | More than 2.7 million water investors made a paper profit of nearly £400 . |
| 28 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly 2 to 1 , according to a new report by IDC Europe . |
| 29 | Sales of shrink-wrapped software for Unix systems is outstripping growth in shipments of Unix hardware by nearly two to one , according to a new report by International Data Corp 's IDC Europe . |
| 30 | ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work . |