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How to use nearly in a sentence

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The round's nearly over. Keep up the momentum!
She fell into the cold water and nearly died from hypothermia.
He suffered a series of tragedies that nearly drove him to madness.
All dressed up and nowhere to go, nearly 7,000 competitors in almost 1,000 yachts were left drifting around in the central Solent yesterday.
The two towns, including outlying suburban settlements, have a population approaching 100,000, of which nearly 47,000 in Kerkrade.
In the three years from 1935 to 1937 Britten wrote nearly 40 scores for the theatre, cinema and radio.
Since the band's beginning, nearly all songs had been written by and credited to a single member, with other members adding minimally.
Killigrew's theatre lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Once already I'd been fired for doing it, and I was very nearly sacked from the Birmingham Rep.
He had spent the previous year learning to fly and had completed nearly 250 hours by the time he left America.
A running time of nearly five hours did not dampen the enthusiasm of the public, the critics or the acting profession.
The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the concept of cinema itself.
After this the orchestra did not appoint a chief conductor for nearly 20 years.
There are four complete or nearly complete extant English biblical collections of plays from the late medieval period.
There was not enough money to put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the other streets are nearly all still standing.
Over 13,000 athletes compete at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in 33 different sports and nearly 400 events.
The marathon saw a dramatic finish with the first man to enter the stadium, Etienne Gailly of Belgium, exhausted and nearly unable to run.
Jorge Lorenzo dominated the event for Fiat Yamaha, finishing nearly seven seconds clear of a battle for second place.
Fangio took second place, nearly 33 minutes slower, his Mercedes delayed by engine trouble and running on only seven cylinders by the end.
The pair lost nearly six minutes when an oil hose blew off, but despite miserable conditions they made up the time and took 1st place.
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As of 2013 Engine development is in charge of a specific division, Renault Powertrains, with nearly 65 engineers.
Ricciardo finished in 4th again, nearly 25 seconds ahead of his teammate Vettel, who finished 5th.
Moto Guzzi produced competitive race machines, and by 1957 nearly all the Grand Prix races were being won by streamlined machines.
From 1499 to 1528, the Republic reached its nadir, being under nearly continual French occupation.
The headquarters of the League, the Palace of Nations, remained unoccupied for nearly six years until the Second World War ended.
A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.
He was hesitant and indecisive, nearly fell out with his engraver, and when the folios were published, could not interest enough subscribers.
Vikings set sail from Greenland and Iceland, discovering North America nearly 500 years before Columbus reached the Caribbean islands.
Hong Kong is also the most popular city for tourists, nearly two times of its nearest competitor Macau.
Though political parties do exist, their influence is not nearly as strong as in the United Kingdom.
An upsurge in nationalism in Latin America in 1810s and 1820s sparked revolutions that cost Spain nearly all its colonies there.
Belfast saw the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with nearly half of the total deaths in the conflict occurring in the city.
Even among Welsh speakers, very few people speak only Welsh, with nearly all being bilingual in English.
It was the rallying point and the battle cry that made the Reformation nearly unassailable.
In the 13th and 14th century, pirates threatened the Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade to the brink of extinction.
In 1708, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, sailed from Dunkirk with 600 French troops in nearly 30 ships of the French navy.
After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.
Altogether, the British evacuated nearly 20,000 blacks at the end of the war.
The slaves in Africa, I suppose, are nearly in the proportion of three to one to the freemen.
Under similar analysis, export tariffs, import quotas, and export quotas all yield nearly identical results.
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The French Revolution transformed nearly all aspects of French and European life.
Although there were nearly 600 princely states, the great majority were very small and contracted out the business of government to the British.
The population of the territory that became the British Raj was 100 million by 1600 and remained nearly stationary until the 19th century.
However nearly all the schools in Imperial Germany had a very high standard and kept abreast with modern developments in knowledge.
In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken.
From Grattan in the 1770s to Parnell up to 1890, nearly all the leaders of Irish separatism were Protestant nationalists.
During the Second World War nearly one third of the world's merchant shipping was British.
A process of balance sheet deleveraging has spread to nearly every corner of the economy.
After his victory King Sverre placed Shetland under direct Norwegian rule, a state of affairs that continued for nearly two centuries.
This was despite a petition attracting nearly 300 signatures and disagreement from the local community.
However, winter temperatures between Hamilton and Madeira's capital Funchal are nearly identical.
In early 2016, the estimated population had reached nearly 5000 primarily due to immigration from other islands.
This general election defeat was shortly followed by Kinnock's resignation after nearly a decade as leader.
For many residents, a monocrop of million-dollar homes is nearly as awful a nightmare as suburban sprawl.
Britain declared formally war to France with a declaration signed on 17 May, nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.
Further nearly 100,000 Americans lost their lives in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
This action, nearly seven months before the start of the Bosnian War, caused the first casualties of the Yugoslav Wars in Bosnia.
The aim of the Plan was to encourage nearly five million farmers to give up farming.
Critics maintain that this rating, outlooking, and watching of securities has not worked nearly as smoothly as agencies suggest.
Approximately 500 cities are directly engaged in drug trafficking and nearly 450,000 people are employed by drug cartels.
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These three laws have been expressed in several different ways, over nearly three centuries, and can be summarised as follows.
In addition to The Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons.
It is now widely accepted that the center of nearly every galaxy, not just active ones, contains a supermassive black hole.
The tunnel was flooded and Trevithick, being the last to leave, was nearly drowned.
Regardless, over the course of a year a more efficient lighting system saves energy in nearly all climates.
Bell's investors would become millionaires while he fared well from residuals and at one point had assets of nearly one million dollars.
According to the Battelle report, nearly 800 firms graduated from park incubators in the past five years, while only thirteen percent failed.
This leaves Gatwick without a scheduled US airline for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Three months later, 'Thunder Horse PDQ', BP's giant new production platform in the Gulf of Mexico, nearly sank during a hurricane.
Why would they mouth-rape this man first, before beating him nearly to death?
In the Bengali writing system, there are nearly 285 such ligatures denoting consonant clusters.
The Nova Scotia tourism industry includes more than 6,500 direct businesses, supporting nearly 40,000 jobs.
In inquisitions, Imam Hanbal refused to conform and was tortured and sent to an unlit Baghdad prison cell for nearly thirty months.
Some estimates have placed that loss at nearly half in the last forty years.
France was nearly brought to its knees by 1709, when King Louis XIV made a desperate appeal to the French people.
Bunyan spent nearly three years in the army, leaving in 1647 to return to Elstow and his trade as a tinker.
After several days of fighting against overwhelming odds, nearly all the warriors are killed.
In it are lines which are nearly identical to those that would later be found in Milk Wood.
It would be nearly four years after Thespis was produced before the two men worked together again.
The second, in 1998, did succeed and the record held at nearly 4,000 musicians until it was broken in 2000 by a group in Vancouver.
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Its run of 2,238 performances was more than twice as long as any previous musical, setting a record that stood for nearly forty years.
The Educational Theater Association in the US has nearly 5,000 member schools.
Back Home, Clapton's first album of new original material in nearly five years, was released on Reprise Records on 30 August.
Radiohead nearly broke up due to the pressure of sudden success as the Pablo Honey supporting tour extended into its second year.
Burton was an alcoholic who reportedly nearly died in 1974 from excess drinking.
Godwin had come to hear Paine, but Wollstonecraft assailed him all night long, disagreeing with him on nearly every subject.
When the house was nearly finished Wittgenstein had an entire ceiling raised 30mm so that the room had the exact proportions he wanted.
Choosing among repeated drafts, revisions, corrections and loose notes editorial work has found nearly one third of the total suitable for print.
By the twentieth century, however, his waistcoat nearly always depicts a Union Flag, and his coat is generally dark blue.
Nawaz Sharif, two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, had planned a triumphant return to his native soil nearly seven years after choosing exile.
Let that which he learns next be nearly conjoined with what he knows already.
In nearly four weeks of fighting beginning on 8 August, over 100,000 German prisoners were taken.
The Ethiopian government required nearly all refugees to live in refugee camps.
According to a World Bank report, nearly half of the poorest 20 percent of Kenyans use a private health facility when a child is sick.
As of today, nearly one million people are living with minimal wages or unemployed not enough to cover their costs of living.
Indonesian is universally taught in schools and consequently is spoken by nearly every Indonesian.
At five percent of the male population, this was nearly double the British average.
The spectacular brochs were built, most impressively the nearly complete broch at Mousa on Shetland.
It is nearly impossible to differentiate between cut citrine and yellow topaz visually, but they differ in hardness.
Edward de Brus created havoc in the colonised parts of Ireland, and might be said to have nearly brought the settlement to its knees.
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As the nineteenth century antiquarian John Riddell supposed, nearly every noble family in Scotland would have lost a member at Flodden.
Florida was home to about 3,000 Spaniards at the time, and nearly all quickly left.
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy.
From 1710 Glasgow became the focus of an economic boom which lasted nearly fifty years.
In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party.
The young couple moved to the town of Cumnock, where Keir set to work organising a union of local miners, a process which occupied nearly a year.
The university currently has fifteen Regius Professorships, nearly twice the number held by the next nearest, Oxford.
Over a hundred basins, now dry or nearly so, were overflowing in the North American west.
The drop of the center creates the nearly parallel steeply dipping walls of a rift valley when it is new.
In the confusion, Robert nearly kills George, but they both escape to the bottom of the hill as the fog begins to clear.
During the short winter days the western capercaillie feeds almost constantly and produces a pellet nearly every 10 minutes.
The region behind the shoulder blades rises into a hump, and the neck is short and thick, to the point of being nearly immobile.
The base of each leaf is twisted a variable amount so that the leaves are nearly coplanar.
The aboriginal cultures and languages were not supported by the state, and were nearly eradicated by the state during the 20th century.
The incident was reported to the police, but nearly 40 years after taking place, the incident has never been resolved.
Nevertheless, nearly all invalid ballots would have been spoiled no matter how they were counted.
For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe.
For nearly two decades before the 1745 rising, many clansmen had been leaving the Highlands to live in the Americas.
Conscription put into uniform nearly every physically fit man, six million out of ten million eligible.
Numerous walnut cultivars have been developed commercially, which are nearly all hybrids of the English walnut.
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Its construction hastened Oswestry's boom as a railway town, from a population of 5,500 in 1861, to nearly 10,000 40 years later.
Steel weapons and tools were nearly the same weight as those of bronze but stronger.
The precipitation of copper in ancient silver can be used to date artifacts, as copper is nearly always a constituent of silver alloys.
This behavior of Dafydd's would become a pattern, nearly continuously until the end of the brothers' lives.
As such Hywel became king of nearly all of Wales except for Morgannwg and Gwent in the south.
Gruffydd was nearly captured, but was warned in time to escape out to sea in one of his ships, though his other ships were destroyed.
Eleanor was taken by ship to Bristol, then held prisoner at Windsor for nearly three years.
Over the three nights a total of nearly 14 hours of enemy activity had been recorded.
When the raid was over 165 people had been killed and 427 more injured, while nearly 350 homes were destroyed or had to be demolished.
Since 2010, Chicago's population has rebounded adding nearly 25,000 people in the most recent 2015 population estimates.
Although municipal elections are officially nonpartisan, nearly all of the city's elected officials are registered Democrats.
The repairs were made at considerable cost and the pier remained open until 1974 when it was nearly condemned as being in poor condition.
The shearwaters form part of the family Procellariidae, a widespread group containing nearly 100 species of medium to large seabirds.
Of the 150 harbour porpoises kept worldwide, nearly 100 were kept in Denmark.
The rest of the body is nearly transparent, virtually invisible under water and in natural lighting conditions.
The Carnegie Commission on Poor Whites had concluded in 1931 that nearly one third of Afrikaners lived as paupers.
In 2015, after nearly 50 years, the mint began producing its own line of bullion bars and coins under its revived Royal Mint Refinery brand.
The hovercraft was superseded by catamarans which are nearly as fast and are less affected by sea and weather conditions.
It is nearly 40 years behind in the demographic transition process compared to EU countries, Japan, etc.
Plaid Cymru nearly won the seat in the 2016 Assembly election, and Labour lost the council in the 2017 local elections.
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Sana'a's population has increased rapidly, from roughly 55,000 in 1978 to nearly 2 million in the early 21st century.
A very few illuminated manuscript fragments survive on papyrus, which does not last nearly as long as vellum or parchment.
Dublin is served by a network of nearly 200 bus routes which cover the city and suburbs.
The total attendances for the season were up nearly 50,000 at 571,331 compared to 521,449 for the previous season.
His appointment inevitably prompted comparison with the Toshack era which began nearly 20 years earlier.
Within a year of joining the RFL, he oversaw reunification with BARLA after nearly 30 years of division.
In the eighth round, Jones sustained a cut over an eye, nearly forcing a stoppage.
Sweetsop and soursop are popular around Miami, but nearly unheard of in other areas of the South.
This was stone cut from the mountainside for nearly two hundred years but which wasn't good enough to make roof slates.
The album held the number one position for nearly a year and reached number four in the pop album charts.
The album's success led to a period of confusion about her role in the music business that nearly led her to quit music.
They are nearly caught by the Black Riders but shake off their pursuers by cutting through the Old Forest.
Rhys was housemates for nearly 10 years with fellow Welshman and actor Ioan Gruffudd, and served as best man at Gruffudd's wedding.
It would drive its ball through even the oldermost of the tribe of Ephraim, or, if you preferred, bark a squirrel at nearly any distance.
In the first month of operations at Richborough, 5,000 tons were transported across the Channel, by the end of 1918 it was nearly 261,000 tons.
Roundworms are typically microscopic, and occur in nearly every environment where there is water.
Raines and Poppe listed nearly 900 species names of scallops, but most of these are considered either questionable or invalid.
In natural conditions, many jellies are so transparent that they are nearly invisible.
The current population is estimated at 80,000, nearly a third of the prewhaling population.
Other marine mammal prey species include nearly 20 species of seal, sea lion and fur seal.
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Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour.
The cornea has a flattened center where refraction is nearly equal in both water and air.
When the station closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor had been in use for nearly 47 years.
He then openhanded him again, and Stossel went down and was nearly crying for his mum.
The rated capacity of a power station is nearly the maximum electrical power that that power station can produce.
For every bird killed by a wind turbine in the US, nearly 500,000 are killed by each of feral cats and buildings.
He also questioned the division into three of what is really a single landmass, a debate that continues nearly two and a half millennia later.
Because of this, it is nearly impossible to live on Svalbard without working for an established institution.
Breakfast nearly always includes coffee, tea or both, with children drinking milk either on their cereal, in a glass or hot milo.
Until the end of the Cold War, nearly all males reaching the age of military service were conscripted.
Swedes are among the greatest consumers of newspapers in the world, and nearly every town is served by a local paper.
The same pattern of political action was observable in the dairy industry's quest for antimargarine statutes nearly 50 years earlier.
When lying down arkars nearly always keep the head erect, as if on the lookout, and when sleeping they lie with the neck outstretched.
The infinite varieties of avant-dance might never sell, and the mainspring of alt-rock is nearly all sprung out.
It was backscratched into existence, cost nearly a billion pounds, and now they are wondering why they let it happen.
The wind knocked the tree over last night. Bam! It nearly scared me to death.
But his friendly, short-sighted eyes and beakish nose were traditional enough, and his hair was sparse, as befitted a man of nearly seventy.
Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
Before returning to the cabin, he spent nearly an hour in a saloon beering up for the ride back.
This moon's orbit is nearly identical to that of Belinda, about 47,000 miles from Uranus.
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Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache appear in half as many groups.
She'd nearly had enough. She was ready to go home, forget all about it. Be the birthdayless, motherless Mattie Browne for the rest of her life.
Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.
Here you have a country of 3 million square miles, nearly all of it empty and eminently bombable.
When Hennery saw the bo's'n crawl out of the water hole he nearly fainted with fright.
Napoleon was nearly captured by the Cossacks after the Battle of Brienne, but was saved by one of his generals.
The fact is, they are not nearly as bummy as a lot of the characters we have back home.
These key principles apply nicely to nearly any negotiation, whether it is an international high-finance deal or a chump-change haggle.
In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.
The time of Henry VII nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history.
I found that we had nearly a hundred bushels of corn, including wheat, maize, and barley, to add to our store.
It will not do to say that the Irish have a monopoly on stupidity, yet there have been times when I thought they nearly cornered the market.
A frequent cougher in a church sets nearly the whole congregation to coughing.
Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
The knife is drawn from a point just posterior to the lateral fin nearly to the tail, then curvingly around to the belly.
Explanations for the gender imbalance are nearly as wide-ranging as cybergirls themselves.
Gaily-garbed Indians and an historical diamond-stacked locomotive, nearly nine decades young, featured a public program there.
If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Correct application of DHV lays the foundation for attraction since nearly every woman prefers a guy who is considered a winner.
In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.
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Mrs. McLash's anger was gone completely, douched not nearly so much by the beer as by this attention to her son.
Her persistent nagging and constant bickering with me nearly drove me up the wall.
Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
It was nearly Easter and she was potting up daffodils and narcissi for sale at the EasterFest in the Park.
For nearly the entire full four years of Frank's administration, the local media ate him alive for even the slightest misstep.
Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.
Except for a few ecopoets and visionaries, nearly everyone saw open acreage around San Francisco Bay as prime real estate.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, enviros cooked up a scheme to prevent nearly any tree from being cut down in the Pacific Northwest.
India is the leading exporter of guar gum, making up nearly 85 per cent of the global production.
The guinea hen, so nearly exsiccated a few days earlier, dangles limp once again, as wet as if it had been freshly slaughtered.
One of the wildly dancing horse's forehooves slammed into his shoulder, nearly dislocating it, and driving the breath out of his lungs.
Moreover, lianqiaoxinoside B and forsythoside H showed nearly the same antioxidant activities.
Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
A giraffe-like man, Gandalfian, nearly ninety, Uncle Leo wore his summer uniform, madras shorts and a polo shirt.
No way could I pull off being a Gorean kajira. I wasn't nearly submissive enough.
The polecat was nearly driven to extinction in Britain, but hung on in Wales and is now rapidly spreading.
At its peak of production in 1913, nearly 233,000 men and women were employed in the south Wales coalfield, mining 56 million tons of coal.
The operating company, Airtricity, has indefinite plans for nearly 100 further turbines on the site.
Eelgrass, formerly common in the entirety of the Wadden Sea, was nearly wiped out in the 20th century by a disease.
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For nearly a thousand years, the Channel also provided a link between the Modern Celtic regions and languages of Cornwall and Brittany.
The conflict with the Portuguese established in nearby Ternate was inevitable, starting nearly a decade of skirmishes.
Spicules of hexactinellids are nearly indistinguishable from those of demosponges in most measured characteristics.
The body of the word was so nearly the same in the two languages that only the endings would put obstacles in the way of mutual understanding.
With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England was in a desperate state.
This was through the existence of homophones and homoiophones, that is, of words with different meanings but the same or nearly the same sound.
The average smoker used only four hoons, leaving him 36 hoons, nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has been said to have taken nearly all of his political philosophy from Aristotle.
This is the language of nearly all surviving early manuscripts of the Mabinogion, although the tales themselves are certainly much older.
Canada was nearly completely covered by ice, as well as the northern part of the United States, both blanketed by the huge Laurentide ice sheet.
In this construction the beam is hinged at a point nearly above the point of the share.
They held powers that were nearly identical to the powers that Caesar had held under his constitution.
Eventually the Senate was forced to give in and, in return, Claudius pardoned nearly all the assassins.
Although nearly half the hypernatremic patients had a febrile illness, other associated conditions assume more prominence than in infants.
She was so hyphy outside the club Saturday night, she nearly punched a cop!
By the end of the imperial period, the city of Rome had nearly 300 horrea to supply its demands.
However, like Trajan nearly a century before, he was unable to capture the fortress of Hatra even after two lengthy sieges.
The losses of income from the Diocese of Africa were equivalent to the costs of nearly 40,000 infantry or over 20,000 cavalry.
The expansion of the Roman Empire was achieved through military force in nearly every case.
At this time, Physicians were attached to nearly every Army and Navy Unit in all the Roman Military.
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By this time the Army was massive, consisting of twenty five to thirty legions, each of which contained nearly 6,000 men.
By 878, the Vikings had overrun East Anglia, Northumbria, and Mercia, and nearly conquered Wessex.
I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
They defeated Earl Ralph at Hereford, and Harold had to collect forces from nearly all of England to drive the invaders back into Wales.
It seems that in general the more nearly a theory approximates incontrovertibility, the more nearly does it approximate triviality.
Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.
The memo discussed a new interdepartmental project that would require resources from nearly every group.
Numerous suitors from nearly all European nations sent ambassadors to English court to put forward their suit.
During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
In the short run yo-yo dieting will work, but eventually it makes it nearly impossible to lose weight.
Presently the wind nearly died out, and the galley and prizes then took the coasters and fishing craft in tow.
Each member of the group, in turn, rose to share a personal story, until nearly everyone in the room had spoken.
At the time of the American Revolution the East India Company flag was nearly identical to the Grand Union Flag.
In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town, nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope.
Cromwell himself estimated that no more than 30 civilians, out of a population of nearly 4,000, survived the day.
I blew into her ear, and trailed a finger idly down her shoulder until I reached her left jug, the better of a nearly perfect pair.
Baraka was part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities, whose career spanned nearly six decades.
Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow.
The Continental powers as late as 1808 were willing to give him nearly all of his gains and titles, but some scholars maintain.
Twice Nelson was nearly cut down and both times his life was saved by a seaman named John Sykes who took the blows and was badly wounded.
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A cannonball struck and killed Nelson's secretary, John Scott, nearly cutting him in two.
Within the United Kingdom, nearly half of all adults partake in one or more sporting activity each week.
In Scotland there are 78 full and associate clubs and nearly 6,000 registered clubs under the jurisdiction of the Scottish Football Association.
By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.
Advances were made in nearly every aspect of naval warfare, most notably with aircraft carriers and submarines.
Hospital services could be cut in nearly two thirds of England and some hospitals will be completely closed.
Over a quarter of patients were not asked if they smoke and nearly three quarters of smokers were not asked if they wanted to stop.
The Indian subcontinent drifted northeastwards, colliding with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago, towards the end of Paleocene.
In nearly all cases, the monarch is still the nominal chief executive, but is bound by convention to act on the advice of the Cabinet.
Some of them climbed down after nearly five hours, while the rest spent the night on the roof.
More loans required deep spending cuts and the Labour cabinet was split nearly in half.
Labour subsequently gained nearly 300 councillors, as well as control of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire County Councils.
For nearly 300 years, from the time of the Norman Conquest until 1362, French was the language of the courts, rather than English.
But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.
Very small woodcuts, nearly all religious, were affordable even by peasants in parts of Northern Europe from the middle of the 15th century.
On 4 August 2015, a Sudanese migrant walked nearly the entire length of one of the tunnels.
The rise of sea level dramatically reduced when the ice melt nearly concluded over the past 4,000 years.
The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably.
In the Second World War the moor became a training ground, and the breed was nearly killed off, with only 50 ponies surviving the war.
Rent has nearly doubled as a share of GDP since 1985, and is now larger than the manufacturing sector.
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The Small Arms Survey estimates that 875 million small arms circulate worldwide, produced by more than 1,000 companies from nearly 100 countries.
By 1901, nearly 120,000 people were living in Preston, now a booming industrial town.
According to BAE Systems, as of July 2012, they have sold nearly 1000 Hawks so far, with sales continuing to date.
Early in the Beagle voyage, Darwin nearly lost his position on the ship when he criticised FitzRoy's defence and praise of slavery.
Also, once you use light-water on a fuel fire, it's nearly impossible to get it to re-light for subsequent firefighters.
First a container was filled with water via a pipe, which extended through the top of the container to nearly the bottom.
The rate of hospitalizations with a blood transfusion nearly doubled from 1997, from a rate of 40 stays to 95 stays per 10,000 population.
A cyclonic separation system, if used, does not lose suction as the collection container fills up, until the container is nearly full.
In crashes, unbelted rear passengers increase the risk of belted front seat occupants' death by nearly five times.
At low speeds, the current induced in the squirrel cage is nearly at line frequency and tends to be in the outer parts of the rotor cage.
In 2007, the festival, despite its popularity, was nearly cancelled due to a lack of support organising the day.
In addition, he commented that the planning application documents were nearly two years old and would require updating.
After some 1200 years of independence and nearly 700 years as a great power, the rule of Rome in the West ended.
It is unknown how long there may be such learned bishops as, thanks to God, are nearly everywhere.
Cork, Kerry, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary and Limerick alone provided nearly half of Ireland's emigrants.
Since nearly losing his shirt in a business deal a few years back, he investigates new opportunities more cautiously.
Some companies may have changed the characters of the signs whilst nearly all Hong Kong people continue to use traditional characters.
Although it is nearly extinct today, some older Namibians still have some knowledge of it.
Benedict resigned due to advanced age in 2013, the first pope to do so in nearly six hundred years.
They are, in general, prepared to cooperate with other Protestants on nearly equal terms.

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