Sentence examples for nearly minus from inspiring English sources

The purpose of the sun shield is to keep the telescope cool; it will operate at 40 degrees Kelvin, or nearly minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Grunsfeld said.

The company describes the Orion as built around a chip made from a superconducting metal called niobium, which becomes a superconductor when chilled to nearly minus 273 degrees Celsius in a bath of liquid helium.

The temperature was nearly minus forty degrees Fahrenheit, and it felt far colder because of the wind, which sometimes whipped icy particles into a blinding cloud, making him so disoriented that he toppled over, his bones rattling against the ground.

But a new analysis of satellite data finds the planet's coldest spot is even more frigid, and can see temperatures plunge as low as nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius (minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit) at night during Antarctic winter.

And by chill, we mean standing nearly naked for a few minutes in a 6-foot-tall metal chamber as blasts of nitrogen chill the air inside to nearly minus-300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Result: nearly 1m "mini-jobs", says the government, three times the number it expected.

That's really just the tip of the iceberg too — Sony released the SDK for the SmartWatch platform right when this year's CES was getting into full swing, and I'm told that there are nearly 60 mini apps waiting in the Google Play store for all you fans of wearable computing to play with.

There are also her hypnotizing "fashion show" videos, which feature Spears in a jauntily edited cavalcade of nearly identical mini-dresses.

And you can also choose to donate an extra $20, and nearly 100percentt (minus a couple percent for the credit card fee) will go towards the American Cancer Society.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared images of the Falcon Heavy set up in a Cape Canaveral facility, nearly complete minus some remaining elements like the fairing and payload that will top the rocket.

Whenever a beloved character has their ethnicity changed by a new casting, there is nearly always a mini furore over it among a portion of their fans (see: Idris Elba potentially playing James Bond).