The phrase "a sample of nearly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a portion or example of something that is close to a certain quantity or characteristic.
Example: "The study included a sample of nearly 500 participants, providing a comprehensive overview of the population."
Alternatives: "a sample of almost" or "a sample of about".
Mining a sample of nearly 5,000 recipients of bachelor's degrees in 1992 and 1993, who were then tracked for nearly a decade, the authors concluded that "job satisfaction decreases slightly as college selectivity moves up".
Looking at a sample of nearly 1,400 girls, the researchers found no evidence that those who were vaccinated beginning around age 11 went on to engage in more sexual activity than girls who were not vaccinated.
Mr. Junco assembled a sample of nearly 2,000 college students who self-reported details of their Facebook use: not just total time spent on the social networking site, but specific actions taken such as commenting, chatting, uploading photos or seeing what others are doing — "lurking," as Mr. Junco calls it.
To estimate the macroeconomic effects of this proposal we used the tax simulation model of the National Bureau of Economic Research, as well as a sample of nearly 150,000 anonymous tax returns for 2006 provided by the Internal Revenue Service, adjusted to approximate the total taxes and tax expenditures for 2011.
The PEPs study is a multicenter, naturalistic, prospective, longitudinal study designed to evaluate clinical, neuropsychological, neuroimaging, biochemical, environmental and pharmacogenetic variables in a sample of nearly 350 first episode of psychosis patients and 250 healthy controls.
Within a sample of nearly 9000 students from the Baccalaureate and Beyond, we find that these measures are correlated with college type, college major, and highest postgraduate degree earned in generally predictable ways.
In a sampling of nearly half a million veterans of the two wars, 21 percent had P.T.S.D., 2 percent had symptoms of T.B.I., and 5 percent had both.
Reviewing a sample of the nearly 5,000 loans in the pool, Clayton, a consultant that reviews mortgage loans, identified 120 "defective" loans for which borrowers' incomes and employment were incorrect or where the borrower's intention to live in the home was incorrect.
A survey of a representative sample of nearly 2,000 rural households in AP released on November 16th by the Centre for Microfinance (CMF), an Indian research institute, makes it possible to assess such claims.
In 2008 the NCP commissioned a secret poll to find out, using a nationwide sample of nearly 23,000 people.
The score was created using data from a large pharmacy benefits manager that provided information for a random sample of nearly 600,000 anonymous patients with diabetes, heart disease and asthma.
