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Example sentences for: near

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On 12 April 1782, in the sea channel near Guadeloupe’s little off-shore islands of Les Saintes, a British fleet gained historic revenge against French Admiral de Grasse, of Yorktown fame, in a battle that is still talked about today.
GeneQuiz focuses on homolog and function assignment through sequence similarity search; PEDANT is a comprehensive analysis pipeline with emphasis on gene prediction, secondary and tertiary structure assignment; iGAP puts much more emphasis on fold recognition, threading and, to be released in the near future, homology modeling.
McCain's flawed plan, like Bush's even more flawed plan, wouldn't give vouchers a fair test, because it doesn't fund the voucher at anywhere near the cost of most private schools.
But we have assigned a junior staff member to lurk near the Gates family mailbox and, when no one is looking, to go through the contents and Magic Marker out all references to the fact that Slate is owned by Microsoft.
To me, it's the latest sign that the end is near, or at least the end of the bull market.