we're nearly there

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

We're nearly there now.

I do not believe the tipping point has been reached yet, but we're nearly there.

"We're nearly there," a source with knowledge of the discussions said.

'We're nearly there… I can Apparate us both back… don't worry…' 'I am not worried, Harry,' said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water.

"It's way too late, but at least we're nearly there," said Councilman Alan J. Gerson, who heads a City Council committee overseeing work at the building.

"We're nearly there," Leonie said in the round drawling accent she had acquired since leaving school, the shield for her self-consciousness.

We are nearly there but yet so far away.

This was the hardest section, through saddle-soreness, knotted shoulders and just the knowledge that we were nearly there.

"In my view we are nearly there... but there is nothing preordained or automatic about the upturn either here or abroad," he said.

We were nearly there, waiting at a stoplight, when we got rear-ended by a limousine, smashing us into the S.U.V. in front of us, squeezing our car like an accordion.

"We are nearly there", was his message for the evening, having suggested that the medicines to do the job might already be in use for other ailments, but that doctors and scientists may not have recognised their anti-cancer properties yet.