Example sentences of "[noun sg] nearly a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Linda , a 38-year-old research scientist at Glaxo 's Greenford complex , says the scheme encouraged her to return to work nearly a year ago after the birth of her son . |
| 2 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 3 | Not since the Crimean War nearly a century earlier , when middle-class radicalism latched on to the opportunities for attacking the aristocratic Establishment in the name of efficient prosecution of the war , had pacifist opinion found itself so isolated in Britain . |
| 4 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 5 | Dallhold Investments , Bond 's private company , went into liquidation nearly a year ago , since when the fate of Bond 's collection of Australian art ( valued in July 1991 at A$10–20 million ) has been shrouded in mystery . |
| 6 | ‘ They were on shore nearly a week , then Flint came back alone . |
| 7 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 8 | He was given his last — and only — pair of trousers on his birthday nearly a year earlier by his father . |
| 9 | I had already been a prisoner nearly a year and had not yet escaped . |
| 10 | It was leaked to the press nearly a month before its official launch ; a national paper detailed many of the leaflet 's suggestions in the some ideas to get you going section which includes a variety of unusual ideas between its first suggestion — pecks on the cheek , and its last — cuddling up and sleeping . |
| 11 | The poorest fifth pay nearly a quarter of their income in indirect taxes if you include in that the assumption that employers pass on their taxes in higher prices . |
| 12 | This time nearly a quarter of the bottom band and 10 per cent of the top two-thirds of pupils used the wrong scale . |
| 13 | At this stage nearly a month had elapsed since the watercolour , so it was important to return to the first study to establish some kind of modus operandi for the oil . |
| 14 | Mr Escovar brought corruption charges against ex-President Lusinchi nearly a year ago . |