Example sentences of "[is] nowhere near " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly our industrial safety inspectorate is nowhere near large enough , and there are blackspots — such as construction — where the casualty rate is far too high . |
| 2 | It is nowhere near as good as OS/2 at managing complex tasks , like getting computers to co-operate across a network . |
| 3 | Dennis Smith , vice-chancellor of the University of California at Irvine and a long-standing adviser to NASA , says the agency is nowhere near ready to send people to Mars . |
| 4 | Sadly , the game is nowhere near as polished as the films . |
| 5 | The temperature in Tokyo is nowhere near what it is in Florida , ’ he said . |
| 6 | This is nowhere near as dangerous as the spike itself , but still causes a strength 5 attack on any targets hit . |
| 7 | But however enjoyable , reading about islands is nowhere near as rewarding as visiting them , and I consider myself fortunate in having been able to spend some time on the north Atlantic islands of Iceland , the Faroe Islands and that most remote of the British islands , St Kilda . |
| 8 | Although the Estate Agents ' dictionary contributes to the recognition of the Banking text , it is nowhere near significant ( z=0.88 ) . |
| 9 | More recently , more prosaic workers have claimed that the damage to coral reefs is nowhere near as widespread as the earlier alarmist reports had suggested . |
| 10 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |
| 11 | I know that Coventry is nowhere near Calderdale , but let us see what the hon. Gentleman can do . |
| 12 | Because you see all that we 've heard is that gentlemen just before Mr he listened at the door before but of course the front door is nowhere near the master bedroom . |
| 13 | Alec Stewart again showed he is nowhere near Test class as a keeper and at the moment , his batting is looking very ordinary . |
| 14 | But the fabric side of the business is nowhere near as labour-intensive as the pottery , where the 28 different shapes of ANTA 's Balloneware , designed by Lachlan , are all handthrown and still handpainted . |
| 15 | At the moment , the number of people suffering from flu in Scotland is nowhere near those levels , but one or two football managers may well be feeling ‘ as sick as a parrot ’ because they did not think to have their highly-priced investments vaccinated before the winter began . |
| 16 | The bodice is quite small , but it 's actually not as , you read about eighteen inch waists , I mean this is nowhere near an eighteen inch waist , and although she would have worn corsets , she obviously did n't wear , you can see there , so much corseting that she could n't move , and that she could n't bend down if she had to . |
| 17 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 18 | Music for wasted afternoons that 's nowhere near the bottom of the pile this week . |
| 19 | ‘ Though it 's nowhere near as much as they recommend , ’ she said . |
| 20 | It 's not very high , it 's nowhere near anything like mountain country , and you 'd have to work pretty hard to inject risk or danger into the walk , yet the narrow , ten mile ridge of the Malvern Hills , provides a cracking day out , out of all proportion to the vital statistics . |
| 21 | " But that 's nowhere near the direct track from Yellowmead Down to Grimspound " |
| 22 | In reality it 's nowhere near as bad as the Scouse hype during the 80's , it 's just that we found that a bit easier to take . |
| 23 | That 's nowhere near Greenwich |
| 24 | There 's nowhere near four quid on there ! |