The phrase "act nearly" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to express that something is almost or nearly acting in a certain way, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The machine will act nearly as expected, but there may be some minor discrepancies."
Alternatives: "function almost" or "perform nearly".
The Glass-Steagall Act nearly failed in 1933 because big banks did not want to subsidize riskier small banks in a deposit insurance program.
He championed liberal causes, supporting President Bill Clinton's thwarted attempt at near-universal health insurance coverage and Mr. Obama's successful Affordable Care Act nearly 20 years later.
The Justice Department action in South Carolina underlines the continuing necessity for the Voting Rights Act, nearly four decades after it was first passed.
It was a delicate balancing act; nearly every time he made a decision, either the guards or the inmates would complain that he was favoring the other side.
Seated beneath the R.F.K. portrait, he expressed dismay that he had to deploy the Voting Rights Act nearly five decades after its original passage.
"The Convert" is a three-act, nearly three-hour drama set during the struggle for power between the native populations of southern Africa (Salisbury would eventually become the city of Harare, Zimbabwe) and the colonizing government of Britain.
Yet anti-Semitic acts nearly doubled in France in the first seven months of 2014, compared with the previous year.
Electric Daisy's lineup on Friday included 48 acts (nearly all dispensing digital music from computers and mixers) playing for an estimated 40,000 people.
Innate immunity is the first line of defense against viruses and microbes and acts nearly immediately to limit the early proliferation and spread of infectious agents.
Present in both the nucleus and cytosol, lncRNAs are probably the most functionally diverse RNAs; they can act at nearly all steps of gene expression within the cell.
