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The shutdown came during the peak of I.R.S. preparations for tax season, the agency said, and put it "nearly three weeks behind its tight timetable for being ready to start the 2014 filing season".

As the former UK foreign secretary David Miliband put it: "Nearly three years ago, after the Gaza war, the international community was preoccupied with opening up Gaza.

Stanton was, as her biographer Lori Ginzberg has put it, nearly singular in her "openly racist defense of women's suffrage". As a symbol, she embodies a deep commitment to white American women as equal to their fathers, husbands and sons.

This makes them, as this University of California at Berkeley webpage put it, "nearly perfect clocks". Any lead that scientists find in the crystals must come from radioactive decay.

As Francis Bacon put it nearly 400 years ago, "The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion…draws all things else to support and agree with it".

That amount would put it nearly on a par with the largest libel award ever paid by a news organization, $3.05 million, by the CBS television station in Chicago after a suit by another tobacco company, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center.

Its final odometer reading is 28.06 miles, which puts it nearly two miles past a marathon.

Problems with engine development have delayed the A400M project, putting it nearly four years behind schedule and more than 5 billion euros over budget.

With $2.4 billion in assets, Fidelity Select Natural Resources had an annualized return of 31.6percentt in the five years through March, putting it nearly in the top quarter of natural resources funds.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained 29.48 points, or 2.6percentto to 1,182.17, putting it nearly 40 points below the point when it entered a bear market on March 12.

Strategy Analytics has published its latest figures for advertising spend in the U.S., and in an overall pot that it estimates at nearly $187 billion, digital will account for just under 30% of that — 28%, or $52.8 billion, to be exact, putting it nearly $30 billion behind TV ad spending.