Example sentences of "nearly seven " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly seven o'clock . |
| 2 | Brigadier-General Tin Oo was unexpectedly released from Insein jail last week , after nearly seven years . |
| 3 | Thomas de Quincey was by any standards a sensitive little boy ; when he was nearly seven , his much loved elder sister , Elizabeth , died . |
| 4 | Today , tax-raisers outnumber tax-cutters by nearly seven to one . |
| 5 | There are nearly seven times as many taxpayers in the South East , where the average wage is £17,000 , but Labour 's proposals would sharply increase the tax burden they bear . |
| 6 | Last year nearly seven million people watched the final , some way below the 12 and 13 million who used to be enthralled by snooker . |
| 7 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 8 | Miss Miggs had only her old-age pension to live on , and the return fare to Gridford , Christine found out , was very nearly seven pounds . |
| 9 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 10 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Here , ’ he said roughly , ‘ there 's nearly seven pounds in that . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that the total agricultural area between 1939 and 1974 has declined by nearly seven per cent. , largely as a result of the increase in urban development , mainly on arable land . |
| 13 | Instead , nearly seven in 10 said a potential boyfriend 's biggest asset was a sexy smile and smooth chin — just like Mel Gibson . |
| 14 | Having lived through the case in considerable detail since the writ was delivered in 1989 , nearly seven years after the audit report in question was signed off , I think I can say that there are some better grounds for believing that the result is good for the profession than are implied in your brief summary . |
| 15 | Understandably , the south of the borough , where areas such as Tidal Basin had death rates nearly seven times higher than wealthy wards in the north such as Park and Upton ( see , for example , West Ham Medical Officer of Health 1918 ) received prior claim . |
| 16 | It has the deepest sea known — 36,200 feet , nearly seven miles . |
| 17 | Two fuselage plugs added nearly seven feet of fuselage to the hybrid AT–6/BT–13 combination . |
| 18 | The next advance in scale , a 120MW set , was ordered in March 1952 for Blyth ( Northumberland ) but not completed until nearly seven years later . |
| 19 | Nearly seven decades would elapse before Ceylon , as Sri Lanka , would earn Test status . |
| 20 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 21 | For example , many more people , ( nearly seven out of ten ) now own their own houses . |
| 22 | Nearly seven thousand were found with remains of the Lady Hao , consort of Wu Ding , fourth king of the Shang dynasty , together with sixteen human and six canine sacrifices , many bronzes including over two hundred ritual vessels , and large numbers of jades . |
| 23 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 24 | Basic population estimates are updated annually , but heavy reliance is placed upon very dated sources , most notably the 1981 Census , which is already nearly seven years out of date and will be eleven or twelve years old before the 1991 Census results become available . |
| 25 | To avert an argument , Ruth cut in firmly : ‘ And Ben 's nearly seven , so I 'm quite sure Uncle Ernest knows you 're not babies . |
| 26 | Mother went out early the next morning , and it was nearly seven o'clock before she came home . |
| 27 | Thirteen years of Conservative rule was followed by nearly seven years of Labour rule . |
| 28 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 29 | That 's nearly seven hundred thousand piasters . |
| 30 | up to nearly seven point nine |