Sentence examples for this was near from inspiring English sources

And this was near a populated area.

This was near the end of the race, and I was tiring.

This was near Kunduz, where Germany's NATO detachment — it has four thousand troops in Afghanistan — is based.

This was near the top of Aspen Mountain last winter, and at moments like these — surveying a no-nonsense double-black-diamond run — the mind will race.

Strangely enough this was near the bottom of the housing market, making the subsequent returns from property look rosy against other investments.

Gannon, 36, is known as an accurate passer, but this was near perfection, the kind of night that the Raiders hope they will look back on later in the season and say, "It all started when......

This was near the end of Franco's rule and Merma was a political allegory so strong that the piece, which wasn't performed until 1978, three years after the dictator's death, could not take place in a public square.

As stated previously, this was near the solar minimum but about a year before the geomagnetic minimum.