Sentence examples for as nearly a from inspiring English sources

Walter Bagehot once complained that Thackeray spent far too much of his time in a quest to demonstrate, as he put it, "that ninth-rate people were 10th-rate", just as, nearly a century later, John Updike criticised Kingsley Amis's novels for their "fussy social judgments".

The female curve started from a higher level (around 180/100.000 at age 18) than the male rate (around 120/100.000), both female and male rates declined rather sharply, but the female rates levelled off between 40 and 50 and dropped sharply thereafter to as nearly a low rate as the male rate at age 65 (around 30/100.000).

We accept that now as nearly a truism.

Despite all the depictions of Mexico as "nearly a failed state," he argued, "the conventional wisdom is wrong".

As many as nearly a third of the Union's membership have hinted at the threat of a veto.

8 30 P.M. (13) NEED TO KNOW As nearly a dozen states rewrite their voting laws, this news magazine examines the potential impact on voter turnout in Ohio.

I merely say that I am as nearly honest as a weak mental machinery will allow".

But a budget bill pushed through by Yatsenyuk at five in the morning was stuffed at the last moment with odd items, such as nearly a million dollars for a music festival, or inflated sums for toilet paper at a government ministry.

Carrying a child in my womb is not -- as nearly as I can tell -- a possibility.

In a move being criticized as a first step toward media censorship, the parliament passed a law that imposes fines as high as nearly a million dollars for coverage deemed "unbalanced or offensive to human dignity or common morals," the New York Times reports.

Or as Nearly Man, a not-quite-so-super hero?