Sentence examples for nearly claimed from inspiring English sources
The Foxhunter's Chase also nearly claimed De Luain Gorm.
On 12 October 1984 the Provisionals' campaign nearly claimed Thatcher herself.
Updated, 9 10 p.m. | One year after the elevator accident that nearly claimed her life, Debra Jordan still struggles to use her left leg and dreads whenever she must change floors.
It doesn't matter that Hysong became the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in the event since Bob Seagren did so in 1968, or that Johnson very nearly claimed that distinction.
On January 20th the great tamer passed away, eight years after stomach cancer nearly claimed his life.Born in 1933 to a musical Milanese family, Mr Abbado established an international reputation as music director of La Scala from 1968 to 1986 before he was appointed music director of the equally prestigious Vienna State Opera.
In 1947, this, the third-largest whirlpool in the world, nearly claimed the life of an injudicious George Orwell, so we opted to pay a local skipper, called Duncan, to call at the ramshackle jetty outside our front door and take us across Corryvreckan's impressively turbulent brine.
11 Julian Savea 7/10 If it's possible to have a quiet game despite nearly claiming a hat-trick in 15 minutes then he did it – almost.
"To write fiction about historical fact is very nearly impermissible," claimed the writer known to posterity as Josephine Tey.
Shortly before his election, the one-time Conservative right-winger agreed to pay back more than £6,000 in previous expenses claims, including nearly £1,000 claimed for accountancy advice.
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This is what nearly everyone claims to want.
