Example sentences of "[ex0] be nearly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dharman Wickremaratne , SLEJF 's Chairman , said of the award , ‘ There are nearly 70 organisations worldwide working in the field of environmental journalism and communication , but we are the first to receive the Global 500 Award , ’ |
| 2 | There are nearly 8,000 farm managers in British agriculture and it has been suggested that this young , better trained group are at the forefront of the improvement of agriculture . |
| 3 | I think all the staff ought to be able to rely ( as they can in colleges of FE ) on this full-time professional service , particularly where there are nearly 1500 customers and 80 members of staff . |
| 4 | There are nearly sixty miles of footpath rights-of-ways , and four golf courses . |
| 5 | Dinner is not provided but there are nearly thirty restaurants and pubs in Ely . |
| 6 | There are nearly 140,000 printed books now held . |
| 7 | However there are nearly 200 equally important areas around the UK which are in urgent need of protection and we look forward to more SPA designations in the near future . ’ |
| 8 | There are nearly 200 Hungarian-West German joint ventures . |
| 9 | We believe that there are nearly 100,000 empty flats over shops , and we have therefore embarked on a three-year campaign to try to change attitudes in the commercial sector . |
| 10 | At Glanvilles Wootton in Dorset , there are nearly two hundred acres of neat rectangular fields in an area which was mapped as woodland in 1839 but as enclosed by 1847 . |
| 11 | Fairfax reckons there are nearly two thousand head . |
| 12 | There are nearly 600,000 more jobs in the United Kingdom today than there were in 1979 . |
| 13 | there are nearly 5,000 reported cases of AIDS , of which nearly 3,000 have already died . |
| 14 | In the UK alone , there are nearly 2,000 quoted companies to invest in and therefore plenty of other homes for institutional Investors cash . |
| 15 | There are nearly 3,200 statues of all sizes , varying from the very small to the very large ; the building can seat almost 40,000 people . |
| 16 | By ten past four there are nearly 30 people standing , sitting , talking and a well-behaved Jack Russell is being fed bon-bons under the table . |
| 17 | There are nearly 30 per cent more public payphones and now , at any one time , 96 per cent of them actually work ! |
| 18 | The market concentrates on older consumers with the highest incomes , but there are nearly 15 million people over the age of 55 in the United Kingdom , and regrettably some of them are poor . |
| 19 | There are nearly seven times as many taxpayers in the South East , where the average wage is £17,000 , but Labour 's proposals would sharply increase the tax burden they bear . |
| 20 | There are nearly 20 of these links in the pattern diagram shown as an example in chapter 4 ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the eastern states are sliding towards a budget deficit of DM50 billion this year and many towns there are nearly bankrupt . |
| 22 | In this country there are nearly three hundred birds being bred on farms and it 's increasing . |
| 23 | There are nearly twenty co-ops in the city now , all of them involving the tenants in deep and detailed commitment both to the planning and to each other . |
| 24 | We asked for their advice ( not all of them , there are nearly half a million users ! ) and the question that we asked was … |
| 25 | There are nearly 4,000 B&B 's in the guide , available from bookshops and most tourist Centres . |
| 26 | Consequently most accidents , and there were nearly 500 of them during the 1970s , were not the result of employee thoughtlessness but emerged directly out of the contradictory demands made upon the workforce . |
| 27 | By the spring of 1943 , there were nearly 2200 RCM children in London , an increase of one-third on the previous year . |
| 28 | In 1986 , there were nearly 160,000 deaths in the UK from the various forms of cancer , about a quarter of all deaths . |
| 29 | By 1850 there were nearly 5,000 Scots in Illinois . |
| 30 | ‘ There were nearly 5,000 people outside the ground at the scheduled kick-off time . |