Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | A central committee official on April 12 reportedly speculated that the Democratic Platform commanded the support of nearly one-third of CPSU members . |
| 2 | Each has a chief executive who , though he sits on the board of nearly 600 directors , is not accountable to the head of the group . |
| 3 | Offered as exhibit A for the prosecution in the case of Nearly Everyone versus Hugo Rune . |
| 4 | It would not be so attractive to many of the professional golfers in the field of nearly 150 who would shortly begin to contest the World Wide Insurance Golf Championship . |
| 5 | This trend culminated in the overwhelming vote of members of the RICS at an Extraordinary General Meeting in July 1986 in favour of the removal of nearly all the restrictions on practising with limited liability , whether as a public company with outside investment or as a private company still owned by chartered surveyor shareholders . |
| 6 | The affair highlighted the fragility of Endara 's government and the extent to which it remained dependent on the presence of nearly 10,000 US troops . |
| 7 | However the presence of nearly rap-vocalist Ken Sakamoto from Tokyo will cause Hug to be compared to the Sugarcubes . |
| 8 | Then the Duke of Wellington , who made a most interesting speech on imaginative farming and game conservation , in which he deplored the massacre of nearly tame reared pheasants , and said that landowners and farmers should look to quality rather than quantity when shooting pheasants . |
| 9 | The Austrian government on Feb. 14 , 1990 , concluded various agreements with Jewish organizations for the payment of nearly US$200 million in benefits to Austrian Jews who had suffered from persecution after the country 's forcible union with Nazi Germany in 1938 [ see also p. 37688 ] . |
| 10 | This would have prevented the loss of nearly three-quarters of the money . |
| 11 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 12 | After all that and the investment of nearly £30 billion in real terms , this nation has nothing to show for 12 years of this Conservative Government . |
| 13 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 14 | This happened only for the deeper intervals and also had the effect of nearly destroying the core . |
| 15 | When we add to this in turn the effect of nearly half of all women working ‘ part-time ’ , then the average income of all households where the married woman was working was only about 40 per cent higher than where the married woman was not working . |
| 16 | In all , the 1919 legislation was responsible for the completion of nearly 214,000 dwellings , the great majority by local authorities . |
| 17 | This structural advantage was offset by the transfer of nearly half a million industrial jobs under government regional policy , 1945–65 , to assisted areas of the ‘ periphery ’ ; these areas were again defined essentially as sub-regions , namely , much of the Clyde Valley , the north-east coast of England , South Wales and Cornwall , together with Merseyside . |
| 18 | After the passage of nearly half a century , how easy it is to criticise the decision taken by a general in the midst of a most desperate battle . |
| 19 | The government ordered the dismissal of nearly all 3,000 of its customs inspectors in early December , replacing them with new recruits , in an effort to reduce bribery and corruption and improve efficiency . |
| 20 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 21 | We come therefore to the problem of defining the individual stratigraphical unit , which is the basis of nearly all our troubles . |
| 22 | He already had an engineer 's licence , the product of nearly three years at the AST ( Air Services Training ) school of aeronautical engineering near Perth . |
| 23 | By the beginning of 1940 the league had secured the affiliation of nearly seven hundred groups , mainly Co-operative and trade union , with an aggregate membership of 250,000 . |
| 24 | The convoy of nearly two hundred new age travellers was broken up by police early this morning . |
| 25 | The attraction of nearly £2 million in prize-money and nine months of travelling throughout Europe is proving too strong for many , and the Tour receives dozens of telephone calls and letters from girls wanting to join the paid ranks . |
| 26 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 27 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 28 | It was the filling of nearly all the offices of government and administration of the laws by citizens chosen , not by competitive election , but by lot . |
| 29 | It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones . |
| 30 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |