Sentence examples for nearly achieving from inspiring English sources

The Q4000, the second vessel to join the containment effort above the well, began collecting oil Tuesday morning, and within three days was nearly achieving its maximum capacity of about 10,000 barrels a day.

Last year, he lost by four shots to Jordan Spieth while nearly achieving something that's never been done here — shooting four rounds in the 60s.

Ms. O'Connor, who is 26, nearly achieves this, but not quite.

I nearly achieved it too, save for one shot.

Balanced harmony was nearly achieved with the Aug. 23 rankings.

Graebner, too, has been loyal to Wilson, but Dunlop once nearly achieved him.

During a prodigious display, Hamilton nearly achieved that goal in the Home Run Derby on Monday night.

History may judge that this was the more demanding goal and yet the one that was more nearly achieved.

King's rambunctious fiction doesn't often attempt a tragic tone, but "1922" does, and nearly achieves it.

In 2004, McCarthy believed that he had nearly achieved his ambition — the "perfect spot" — with an ad for George W. Bush, called "Ashley's Story".

For a few years in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, nearly achieved the status of a pop icon.