Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] nearly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 2 | Joking apart Kevin has been training for nearly a year . |
| 3 | His people , the Navaho , had been waiting for nearly a hundred and fifty years . |
| 4 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 5 | NICOLA Delacour ( 18 ) , from Newtownards used to work in a building society but has now been modelling for nearly a year . |
| 6 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |