Sentence examples for breached nearly from inspiring English sources

JOE WARD Lakeview When the 17th Street Canal levee was breached, nearly eight feet of water filled Lakeview's homes.

Personal data security was breached nearly 9,000 times by the government in a year, the National Audit Office NAOO) has found.

But the Channel was breached nearly 100 years ago, when Bleriot flew across it, in 1909, and the development of air transport has made it an obstacle no more imposing than a hopscotch court chalked on the pavement.

Restraining orders come next, but lots of those are breached: nearly 1,500 in 2009, three times as many as a decade ago.

It was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, when the levees protecting the city were breached and nearly all of the city was flooded.

In April 1992, the Chicago Loop was closed for a week when a freight tunnel under the Chicago River was breached, sending nearly 250 million gallons of water coursing through the city's tunnel system and into basements.

Bah! 4.50pm BST 78 min Saints are nearly breached as Wyles flies down the left and is stopped by Foden.

Plaintiffs nearly breached the wall a few months later, in Cameron vs. GM.

They breached the room nearly an hour later, and found the shooter dead from an apparent self-inflicted wound.

And in the summer of 2011, as the debt ceiling was nearly breached, the two sides fell back on an exchange that neither truly liked.

In December 2010, a huge storm hit the island and the storm surge washed out part of the only road and bridge that connects it to the mainland, and nearly breached the lagoon that residents rely on to filter their sewage and provide clean water.