Sentence examples for nearly firm from inspiring English sources

By noon the foundation was nearly firm; by five it was as snug and tight as an ice cube in a tray.

The chamber's Piter de Jong says that nearly every firm said it would invest again in Europe, but many had grumbles.A big complaint is regulatory delay, especially for visas.

Nearly 400 firms have gone ahead with such provisions since May.

For example, ChoicePoint was founded in 1997 and has acquired nearly 60 firms to amass databases with 19 billion records on people.

Nor has it done much other restructuring, such as disposing of the whisky-making division that helped start its troubles.Today nearly 1,000 firms under court protection are still run by the very managers who bankrupted them in the first place.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) polled nearly 2,400 firms and found that 85% wanted Scotland to stay within the UK, with nearly two-thirds arguing that independence would not give them new business opportunities.

Nearly 450 firms are listed on Bovespa.

Nearly 350 firms adopted option-based compensation plans between 1997 and 2001.

Productivity and spending on investment increased in every sector, according to the survey of nearly 650 firms.

In 2007, there were nearly 2,000 firms operating in Karnataka.

The Economic Development Corporation described the study, which it paid a Boston consulting firm nearly $1 million to conduct, as the most significant study to date on wage mandates.