Sentence examples for nearly live from inspiring English sources

Yet even though the festival didn't nearly live up to its advance billing, there was a certain sublimity to its ramshackle shortcomings.

Repeating a pattern seen many times in history, the low tax rate produced happy, productive citizens and abundant revenues (in the form of wheat), and Rome could nearly live upon the produce of this tax alone.

Then there is nearly live, meaning you are watching something that happened, say, less than an hour ago.

Hear Jonas Kaufmann or Juan Diego Florez, nearly live, for a reasonable price, from a comfortable cinema armchair rather than an overpriced, under-sized seat that only shows you the stars at the size of pins?

It's difficult to turn around live – or nearly live (say, 10 minutes after an event has happened, having it cut, and ready for distribution for the masses) – television in a mobile environment these days.

This is distinct from the city's fire department, which offers a web page with nearly live updates on dispatches, because citizens tend to steer clear of conflagrations but not of less visible threats, such as when suspected perpetrators lurk in the area.

Each have Pac-Man and the ghosts in (nearly) living color.

Nearly 90percentt lived in houses, and 57percentt were homeowners.

Walker, nearly 30, lives with his' widowed mother.

Moscamed has spoken to nearly everyone living in the affected areas.

Nearly 55percentt lived in the nine metropolitan areas with populations of five million or more.