Sentence examples for were nearly finished from inspiring English sources

The units were nearly finished, though the appliances weren't yet installed.

We were nearly finished when some old miners walked in, carrying their helmets.

White House officials said they have been reviewing Arctic policies for several years and were nearly finished with a new security policy on the region — the first since 1994.

CHENGDU, China — After five days of nonstop digging, engineers said Friday night that they were nearly finished carving a channel they hoped would relieve pressure on a swelling lake that threatens more than a million people already coping with the aftermath of the May 12 earthquake.

It is a giant great con, since the whole routine is designed to suggest (though never actually say) that there was a sweet spot, a point at which you were in enough pain to get the drugs, but not so much that it meant you were nearly finished.

Still, the Young brothers had new ideas during production, including the song "Anything Goes", which was written when the studio sessions were nearly finished.

Only a fragment of Beckett is actually spoken in May B – the opening line from Endgame "Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished".

Kadima is nearly finished.

THE NEW YORKER: We're nearly finished.

He is nearly finished with the first novel, "Pirate".

THE new headquarters of Citigroup India are nearly finished.