Example sentences of "it [verb] nearly a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says nearly a third of women think their cars are dirty compared with one in five men . |
| 2 | Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything ? |
| 3 | It takes nearly an hour to negotiate the course of a conversation . |
| 4 | It contained nearly a hundred pages , densely covered with rows of figures — the results of interviews with 1,072 people from Land 's End to John O'Groats . |
| 5 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 6 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 7 | As it was it took nearly a hundred men to pull him out . |
| 8 | It took nearly an hour for her to empty the wardrobe and dressing-table . |
| 9 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |