Sentence examples for nearly halted from inspiring English sources

Yet by the early 1920s population growth in the region had nearly halted.

It worked so well that I nearly halted my search right there.

Snow as deep as 18 inches, along with ice, shut down railroad services, airports and schools across southern England and nearly halted travel on major highways.

The Steelers nearly halted Denver's drive, but safety Brent Alexander dropped an interception at the Pittsburgh 20 with less than a minute left.

This year, after the attacks on the World Trade Center, a third week was added in October, to bolster restaurants whose business had nearly halted.

The recession nearly halted work on the 34-acre site, which has been promoted as a mixed-use community for Nashville's creative class and a revival of a once-neglected section of this city of 600,000.

Congress has placed restrictions on further transfers, nearly halting any departures even though about half of the remaining inmates were cleared for release years ago.

5. Spend time on less important things so that you can ignore more important things Insist on doing tasks someone else could do while unmade decisions pile up on your desk to the point of nearly halting anything getting done.

Blocking the activity of a single enzyme can nearly halt the nerve damage caused by glaucoma in mice, according to a paper in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A still-depreciating housing market, the difficulty of getting development money and mortgages, higher risk coupled with lower profitability and organized community opposition have all played a part in nearly halting teardowns, local officials and real estate professionals say.

Members of the International Longshoremen's Association are taking the threats to the agreement seriously and plan to have their members show up en masse at the hearing, nearly halting for a day the loading and unloading at area ports.