Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] nearly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years Beverley has taught nearly a hundred people how to make monoclonal antibodies in their laboratories . |
| 2 | Well as Mike said , since the inception of the Service for Industry programme in nineteen eighty , the University of Sussex has helped nearly a hundred local companies . |
| 3 | Aldus Europe has spent nearly a year , and a not inconsiderable amount of money , setting up a multilingual production facility to create all the European language editions of their products . |
| 4 | Midland Montagu , the biggest gilt market-maker , reckons that it has financed nearly a quarter of its needs already , with just six weeks of the financial year gone . |
| 5 | The Nikkei index of share prices plunged by 3½ p.c. on both Tuesday and Wednesday , and whatever happened in the early hours of this morning , the index has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year and more than halved from its peak . |
| 6 | He 's got nearly a mile to walk ? |