Sentence examples for Nearly from inspiring English sources

"nearly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to indicate that something is close to being true, but not quite. For example: "The project was nearly complete when the computer crashed."

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Nearly

adverb

With great scrutiny; carefully.

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At this point, he's up against nearly the whole Palin tribe: Palin women screaming.

The purpose of this project was to start a conversation with young people and engage them in making something – we now have nearly 50,000 of them to date.

"It didn't get the strongest winds in the eye wall but it certainly got a period of nearly three hours of sustained gale force winds and wind gusts in the 95 to 100km/h range".

It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock.

It's nearly impossible for consumers to evaluate how healthy a bank is.

He's pouring nearly all our money into his darling academies.

Details of the payment emerged in a report by the public spending watchdog published on Wednesday, which revealed that senior managers at the BBC were paid nearly £2m more than they were contractually obliged to over a three-year period.

While serious independent journalism remains nearly impossible in Iran, the bureau is able to provide original reporting through its extensive list of contacts both inside and outside the republic, and to bring the voices of ordinary people to an international audience.

Nearly 1.9m Australians are affected by the minimum wage and the award minimum wage.

There weren't nearly enough seats, which indicates a Lib Dem commitment to providing their own electoral metaphors.

A cashier at Dushanbe's Abulkosim Lohuti Academic Theatre says the 500-seat hall is often nearly empty.

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