Example sentences of "[be] nearly [num] [noun pl] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 2 | When you think it 's nearly two years since I 've been here . |
| 3 | It 's nearly three years since I started writing , I have n't got |
| 4 | It is nearly two weeks since I last touched a drink and we are still undefeated in the League . |
| 5 | By the spring of 1964 I had persuaded myself that as it was nearly nine years since I joined AIB as a Senior Inspector and I was still a Senior Inspector , I would probably draw my pension as status of the engineering investigators to that of the operational investigators . |
| 6 | It was nearly six years since I first met the people of Sabra and Shatila . |