Sentence examples for only very nearly from inspiring English sources

So far, it has only very nearly cost them.

The fact that this was also the era of Roth's early youth — and that his return was shortly followed by his father's fatal illness — seems to have made it clear, when he looked back, that a Jewish block in Newark had been not only "America" but very nearly Paradise.

Root has just very nearly played on with a miscued slog-sweep against Herath, but that's the only scare.

Only it very nearly wasn't.

In fact, Mary Yellan has only one, very nearly fatal flaw: dismally poor judgment when it comes to deciding who to trust.

Zalasiewicz deeply admires graptolites, which thrived and diversified in the early Paleozoic, some five hundred million years ago, only to be very nearly wiped out in a catastrophic extinction event.

If you are about to cross the street and you look both ways for cars only to be very nearly knocked down by a bicycle, you have, arguably, committed the same type of error.

But it very nearly wasn't.

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The Findon-based rider told BBC Sussex: "It was only 50-50 and he very nearly died.

Sanders painted a similar picture of a nation in decline that only he could save and very nearly pulled off the impossible by beating Clinton in the primaries.