Sentence examples for not until nearly from inspiring English sources

It was not until nearly 3 a.m.

And it was not until nearly 3 a.m. that they checked into their hotel.

Not until nearly midnight did Mr. N'Dour finally appear on stage.

But it was not until nearly halfway through that "Avatar" won its first award, for art direction.

But it was not until nearly a month later, on 9 June, that congress declared him as the president-elect.

(Not until nearly a decade later did Ferdinand Lindemann finally prove the transcendence of pi; before that, mathematicians had only conjectured that pi was transcendental).

It wasn't until nearly 30 years later that a restored version became available on DVD.

It wasn't until nearly a decade after America left Vietnam that we had Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

The post-9/11 jitters depressed the market and it wasn't until nearly Memorial Day or even later that many summer contracts were signed.

"So I waited and waited and it wasn't until nearly 20 years later, after I had been in a different direction, that I properly recorded the Schubert.

At the Sentosa Cove beach house, it wasn't until nearly one in the morning, when Bruno was already more than a hundred thousand in the hole, that Billy Yik Tho Lim said anything about the mark on Bruno's neck.