Sentence examples for nearly managed from inspiring English sources
He set as his task the toppling of the Puritan theocracy, and nearly managed it.
His party then nearly managed to lose the next election, and is now in hock to independents and Greens.
They so nearly managed again to take the match to extra time, which would have felt better.
His Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had murdered a Sri Lankan president and a former Indian prime minister, and nearly managed to assassinate Sri Lanka's current president.
We passed a Vietnamese family that had nearly managed to clean up their yard; the mother, kneeling, sorted through fragments of household effects.
Even on the underthrown pass, Prater nearly managed to haul in the ball by reaching around his defender with one hand.
And nearly manages to scamper past the entire Irish team and touch down for a try.
It may seem a tall order, but if Everton and Aston Villa can nearly manage it, surely City and their millions can regard it as an achievable goal.
But Ms. Danner nearly manages to hold this film together with her perfectly human portrayal of Corinne Mulvaney, a woman sustained by a thin veneer of pride and a deep vein of devotion when a cruel fate shatters her life.
Bobadilla makes a nuisance of himself: with his back to goal eight yards out, he flicks the ball over his head and turns, nearly managing to make contact with the ball again with only Hart to beat.
"It was a disgraceful example of the perennial ineptitude of the collectivity of the University of Oxford which has nearly always managed to get these issues wrong.
