Sentence examples for nearly idle from inspiring English sources

The nearly idle terminal is a monument to a stalled experiment, one that was supposed to import so much L.N.G. from around the world that homes would be heated and factories humming at bargain prices.

But you would not know it over at Il Giglio, where the tables are filled six nights a week (Il Giglio is closed Sundays) even while some of Zurich's fanciest restaurants often sit nearly idle.

Dominion Power, which operates a nearly idle import terminal near Cove Point on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, is also expected to proceed with a conversion to exports, since it is strategically located near the mid-Atlantic gas fields of the Marcellus Shale.

In the northeastern corner of North Korea, the industrial port city of Chongjin now lies nearly idle, and recent Western visitors there report that its hulking factories are rusting, with two-thirds of them producing little or no smoke from their stacks.

Nearly two years later, his idle fantasy is about to turn into painful reality.

A nagging knee injury has kept him idle nearly all season.

By putting cars into hundreds of neighborhood parking spaces, eliminating paperwork and renting for as little as an hour, car shares allow people to give up ownership of a very expensive item that sits idle nearly all the time.

With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sitting beside them, the board members of the nation's largest legal off-track betting operation voted Tuesday to shut down by mid-June, a plan that would close more than 60 neighborhood betting parlors and idle nearly 1,500 workers.

Most of them are new, or newish, and nearly all are idled.

The program peaked late last summer, with more than 400,000 farmers receiving nearly $1.8 billion for idling 36.8 million acres.

And whereas the average jobless American was out of work for less than four months, the average jobless European spent nearly 15 months involuntarily idle.During previous downturns, unemployment in America has risen more sharply than elsewhere but then fallen more quickly, too.