Sentence examples for nearly realised from inspiring English sources

First, there is the case where the theory is very nearly realised.

Moreover car ownership – for a while – became the nearly realised dream of many working-class households.

So too, is shock: the shock of experiencing the tragedy up close and, say nearly all, realising the lack of empathy displayed by governments back home.

By the early 21st century, nearly everyone had realised this.

Yet while Orwell's first four novels are not nearly so completely realised as their more famous successors Animal Farm and 1984, they offer many important insights into the development of the most important English novelist of ideas of the last century.

"When I was nearly home I realised I'd left my little brothers behind.

A queue to see an exhibition of 81 Gromit statues in Bristol had to be closed earlier when organisers realised nearly 3,000 people were outside.

The exhibition's organisers had to temporarily stop people from joining the queue when they realised nearly 3,000 fans were waiting to see them.

But the queue to see all the statues under one roof had to be closed to new joiners on Saturday for a few hours when organisers realised nearly 3,000 people were outside.

We still went to church, we had two children, but when my daughter was nearly two I suddenly realised: "If I don't do something to sort this out, I'm going to end up hating her because she's going to become what I've always wanted to be – a woman".

Or was it rather that the nearly middle-aged Proust realised that he didn't have as much time to lose as he thought, thanks to the disabling asthma that would eventually cut short his life at just 51? Perhaps Taylor is hazy on the detail because, in truth, there was no single moment of metamorphosis.