Sentence examples for nearly the first from inspiring English sources

That propelled them into the fourth, where they held the Suns scoreless for nearly the first five minutes.

The Braves had played nearly the first third of the season and they had a losing record.

Murray wasn't tested often early and went nearly the first half of the second period without facing a single shot.

They provided nearly the first three months of financing for Wallstrip, then about $20,000 a month.

When Dr. Tsieu's baby boy was born, Jessica was nearly the first to the maternity ward; Dr. Tsieu seemed too small to have accomplished such a thing.

That pathetic holiday scene is nearly the first one in "The Jacksonian," set in 1964 at a hotel by the same name.

His surge would earn him the third set and nearly the fourth.

The ball sails just to the left of Cavallero's left-hand post; so nearly the second.

One doctor even sighed at me after I visited him for nearly the tenth time, begging for an answer.

She had nearly finished the first bottle of wine.

"The stress caused by feeding difficulties nearly ruined the first weeks with our son.