Sentence examples for you were nearly from inspiring English sources
"Do you understand that you were nearly born in jail?" Nelson Mandela once wrote to his daughter, Zenani.
"That tower was already there in 1974; seeing it meant you were nearly on the Hong Kong side.
John Boorman, Mike Leigh, Terence Davies - you were nearly in, and probably should have been for, respectively, Point Blank, Naked, and Distant Voices, Still Lives.
"When the last encore would die down, you were nearly dead with sweat, you can't do more than four hours, and they had to shut the place up".
"Do you understand that you were nearly born in prison?" Then he summoned a more painful memory, telling Zeni of one of the last times he had seen her.
The charm of Gillian Keith's Poppea was that she phrased thoughtfully and used her soprano with such warmth that you were nearly as seduced by her character as Nerone was.
You're nearly out of hair, Freddy.
Though you're not really supposed to get that until you're nearly done.
If you become so fluent that you are nearly a balanced bilingual, would the effect disappear?
