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Simple sentences
I nearly choked on a fishbone.
I was nearly run over by a car.
He slipped and nearly fell.
He has been engaged in the study of biology for nearly ten years.
I've been waiting here nearly three hours.
I nearly forgot it.
Not only was Tom born nearly blind in one eye, but at his advanced age he can no longer see all that well out of the other one either.
Tom said the pizza was nearly perfect.
When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
We were nearly frozen to death.
I was nearly hit by a car.
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illness.
It was nearly noon.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
Nearly all Japanese have dark hair.
The boat shipped water and nearly capsized.
The old woman was nearly run over.
The child was nearly run over by a car.
Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.
You nearly poked me in the eye with your pencil.
Here it's August and our summer vacation is nearly over.
Texas is nearly twice as large as Japan.
By the time you get there, it will be nearly dark.
The coffee was so hot that I nearly burned my tongue.
Movie subtitles
In London, the figure was nearly one in three.
What they're building here in Nanjing is a fuII-scaIe replica of one of the treasure ships of admiral Zheng He - the most famous sailor in Chinese history, the man who very nearly turned the middle Kingdom into a global empire.
These radio, radar, and television signals fill a sphere nearly 1 00 light years in diameter, so any civilisation within 1 00 light years of Earth might be hearing our voices or watching our television shows.
Gail's nearly one now and my sister Freda's going to have her.
They nearly knocked us over, too.
Those are the ones that nearly knocked us over.
Nearly lost my bloody job over it.
In fact, we have been sleeping together for nearly three years.
Banned by nearly every nation on Earth.
He's been sitting at that cart for nearly an hour.
Don't give up, we're nearly the last!
If we don't come to an agreement, Mr Helius, five minutes after my departure, your hangar, along with the nearly completed spaceship, will be reduced to a heap of rubble.
It's nearly 6:00, and you know how long it takes you to dress.
Do you realize that i'm very nearly around you?
I realized that even with my power, it wasn't nearly adequate to save the entire human race.
The program li was working on. It's germ weaponry. Banned by nearly every nation on Earth.
Nearly 100 years.
Yes, sir, that pork is nearly done right now.
You know, Mary, everyone seems to be having nearly as much fun as I am.
It's nearly six o'clock.
Watch out, he's nearly as crooked as you.
But how I got here! Mr. Carson nearly died laughing.
Why, you've bathed me sometimes. and very nearly spanked me, too, several times.
Very nearly.
The last man nearly ruined this place.
It's nearly a month now, without a word.
He's assaulted Mrs Hall and nearly killed her husband. Oh.
It's nearly seven o'clock.
And it's nearly seven o'clock.
Be a long walk back, pal, we've been driving for nearly an hour.
The program Li was working on, it's germ weaponry, banned by nearly every nation on earth.
You know, for our sake as nearly injured.
Up? I'm nearly out.
It's worth nearly a thousand.
I've been nearly crazy keeping it all to myself.
Nearly midnight.
Nearly 12:00.
It's nearly time, milady.
You must have nearly two gallons already.
News and current affairs
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
That is true: most of those gases are still in the atmosphere, and without them the problem would not be nearly as urgent as it now is.
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
Of the 8.6 million British forces in WWI, nearly a third came from the overseas empire.
Of course, America did maintain economic dominance after 1945: the devastation of WWII in so many countries meant that the US produced nearly half of global GDP.
In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.
America reels from one shooting disaster to the next, and on nearly every occasion, politicians dutifully declare their continued devotion to unregulated gun ownership.
Its defense expenditures represent nearly half the world total, and exceed those of the next 17 countries combined.
And eurozone unemployment is at record highs, with nearly one in two young people jobless in Spain and Greece.
As it happens, nearly every system in the world is composed of such layers.
This year it will be nearly eliminated.
While the 1988, 1992, and 2000 elections were also quite consequential, the policy shifts were not nearly as large as in 1980 and 2008.
For nearly 20 years, one group of activists argued - in the face of ever-mounting evidence - that global warming was a fabrication.
Indeed, China's policies have damaged its relations with nearly all of its neighbors.
On October 24, people in nearly every country will be taking action to raise awareness of the need for an international treaty to bring our atmosphere back to 350 ppm of CO2.
The Taliban - blamed nowadays for just about all of Afghanistan's ills - have officially been gone for nearly seven years, so why are conditions still so abysmal?
This means that someone - a husband or mother-in-law - had taken the decision not to send the young woman to the hospital, instead keeping her in inhuman suffering for nearly a week.
JERUSALEM - In my nearly nine decades of life, I cannot recall a time in which the past was so irrelevant to policymaking.
Today, though the need for such an order is just as great, the argument is not nearly as comprehensible or emotionally powerful.
Of the 8.6 million British forces in WWI, nearly one-third were provided by the overseas empire.
Unlicensed drivers, he found, are nearly five times more likely to be in a fatal crash.
Fortunately, the campaign season is nearly over.
In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.
The Cold War ended a generation ago; the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, are nearly a decade in the past.