Sentence examples for were nearly over from inspiring English sources

Mr. Times began the class by assigning groups of two or three students to complex chess problems in games that were nearly over, with one side seeming all but guaranteed to lose.

"I was lamenting the 1990s for quite a few years into the noughties, then I realised the noughties were nearly over and that they've been much better than the 90s.

When the Bush years were nearly over, in American Fascists he explained that there was no way to talk to Christian fundamentalists, and that the real danger was that in a time of economic crisis they may find broader footing.

"Many of their games were nearly over at halftime.

The worst is nearly over," he said.

The great housing depression is nearly over".

August is nearly over and I am getting worried.

Now that his term is nearly over, he is a bolder man.

The lunch period was nearly over before a potential customer stopped to check out its offerings.

Months after that, when trend is nearly over, this story appears.

If human life is nearly over, why preach in such detail the right way to live?