Example sentences of "for nearly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nearly a week after the injury , whenever he was in Nikkie 's field of view , Yeroen would hobble pitifully , generating an air of pain and dejection . |
| 2 | After the Communist victory in 1949 , Chen followed Mao to Peking , where he worked quietly and largely anonymously for nearly a decade . |
| 3 | The anthem , flower-presentation , long walk and interminable announcements all took place after the teams had taken the field , where they were forced to kick their heels in a neat line for nearly a quarter of an hour during which the chanteuse and the French Army choir six times exhorted the crowd : ‘ To Arms ! ’ . |
| 4 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 5 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 6 | Dr David Clark , Labour 's agriculture spokesman , said : ‘ It was entirely irresponsible of the ministry to allow farmers for nearly a week to feed contaminated material to animals . |
| 7 | According to Hearn the WPBSA intends to take only 16 players for a week to its overseas events instead of 32 for nearly a fortnight . |
| 8 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 9 | Yet the export drive predicted for nearly a decade has yet to happen . |
| 10 | Japanese industry now accounts for nearly a third of sales . |
| 11 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 12 | They married the fact of a German kingdom to the theory of Italian churchmen and the offspring survived for nearly a thousand years . |
| 13 | Then Brian Mooney , playing his first senior game for nearly a year , was dispossessed on the edge of the penalty area and Minto gleefully scored the winner . |
| 14 | She soaked herself with petrol before locking herself inside the back of the van for nearly a day . |
| 15 | For nearly a year I have been here alone . |
| 16 | She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years . |
| 17 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 18 | At the north end of the aqueduct is the Leawood Pumping Station , where a beam engine installed in 1849 pumped water from the river to the canal for nearly a hundred years . |
| 19 | Miss Clinton stayed for nearly a week at Dale End before leaving to tour Scotland . |
| 20 | ‘ Despite intensive efforts for nearly a year , we have not been able to find a satisfactory formula either in terms of price or consistency of supply ’ he said . |
| 21 | This was folded and stored in a paper envelope for nearly a hundred years , and the creases make it very unlikely we shall ever be able to play it on an original machine . |
| 22 | Popular music 's ‘ standard hit ’ three minutes long remained the norm for nearly a century , and was only liberated by the ‘ twelve-inch single ’ . |
| 23 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 24 | Bukharin thus posed the problem facing the Bolsheviks in its starkest form , a problem that was to be hotly debated for nearly a decade to come . |
| 25 | She struggled with her anger and guilt for nearly a year , and had gradually resolved these feelings . |
| 26 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 27 | Mark Little is Joe Mangle 's alter ego , the real-life actor who was doing comedy for nearly a decade before Neighbours . |
| 28 | We stayed on the train for nearly a week , first being drawn down the track to Myinge where dear Jack Cardew took us into his house while the railway was repaired . |
| 29 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 30 | After they had virtually controlled the city for nearly a week , the Shanghai students scaled down their actions . |