Example sentences of "[that] nearly " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October of that year the AR regretted that nearly all competition entries had evaded the key problem and had signally failed ‘ to achieve the genuine pub atmosphere ’ . |
| 2 | For those who only need relatively local stations , advantage can be taken of the fact that nearly all FM stations now radiate , either slant-polarised or circularly polarised signals , so that a vertical dipole , completely non-directional in the horizontal plane , gives as much signal as a horizontal one . |
| 3 | Success of the PC as an engineering tool must in part be due to its expansion bus and the fact that nearly every type of facility can be found on a PC card . |
| 4 | A report from Australia on children who had swallowed dishwasher detergent revealed that nearly half had been given the wrong advice and made to vomit . |
| 5 | Some 4,690 Wensleydale households took part in the survey which shows that nearly 10 per cent of local residents need immediate additional accommodation or will do so shortly . |
| 6 | This means that nearly 30 per cent of the population of France would have to visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 7 | ‘ A recent RAC survey showed that nearly six out of 10 car owners do n't know if their car can run on lead-free fuel . |
| 8 | They found confirmation of this in the one fact that nearly all nineteenth-century anthropologists were agreed upon , that what characterized primitives ( if not perhaps the most primitive ) was the predominance of kinship ties as the organizing principle of society . |
| 9 | Most , but not all , of the islanders retreated to the mainland , returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed . |
| 10 | The new company also showed a new formula for a race car based around the 2-litre , four-cylinder , 16-valve engines that nearly all the big manufacturers have ( See sports news ) . |
| 11 | Until then the Polo is no more than a worthy evolution of a familiar species and merely addresses the most urgent problems that nearly 10 years of standing still have created . |
| 12 | It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy , though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race . |
| 13 | Mark is visibly angry with ‘ them ’ , the faceless bureaucrats who made the rules that nearly lead to his ruin . |
| 14 | In a briefing document presented by the employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , at Westminster , Labour challenges Government claims that nearly a million jobs were created in 1979-89 . |
| 15 | A recent poll by DMR , a Canadian information-technology consultancy , shows that nearly as many American companies are planning to adopt Unix as OS/2 . |
| 16 | But the Humane Society of the United States says that nearly 40% of the animals that wind up in shelters are pure-breds or their mongrel offspring . |
| 17 | Poll on poll has suggested that over half the population believes abortion should be legal as a matter of course , and that nearly 90% say it should be legal in certain cases . |
| 18 | Still , Santander is brave to sail through shoals that nearly wrecked other foreign venturers . |
| 19 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 20 | She must have sensed that one day I would be leaving her again , and that nearly broke my heart , knowing the sadness she must feel all too well in my experiences with lovers who never stayed long but left me feeling as if part of me had been torn from my body . |
| 21 | Protein is so important that nearly all diets , no matter what other failings they may have , emphasize adequate protein intake . |
| 22 | It is an Army Town and we were its children , destined , if unlucky , to go the way that nearly 2,000 of its children did years before and would do again . |
| 23 | In 1985 the management of Somerset Probation Service was faced with the fact that nearly one in three of the offenders supervised in their area were either known to be or suspected of misusing alcohol ( Singer , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | These were furnished with fountains , seats , grass and trees and were so organized that nearly every quartier of Paris could give its inhabitants a place for relaxation . |
| 25 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 26 | Among the French peasants of Village in the Vaucluse , Laurence Wylie still found in the 1950s that nearly all the older people were still at work . |
| 27 | Those I interviewed said that nearly all the public comment they had heard had been favourable to the televising of the House . |
| 28 | Many physicians from that time forward were of the opinion that nearly all the late complications of syphilis were , in fact , the result of mercury poisoning . |
| 29 | But suppose that nearly all the entries had just happened to be nasty . |
| 30 | Such neglect will also affect the attitude of the older employee : a survey in 1989 found that nearly half of working adults aged over 35 could not foresee any circumstances leading them to undertake any further education or training . |