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Example sentences for: near

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Was Bank Street named after someone named Bank, because it was near the bank of a river (which has now been moved three blocks away because the land was filled in), because the town bank was once on it, or because it was where they used to bank fires?
Soutine was born the 10 th of 11 children to an impoverished tailor (or more precisely a "mender") and his wife in Smilovitchi, a village near Minsk.
But the Senate tobacco bill is nonetheless a preposterous piece of legislation, predicated on the concept that the industry has near total control over whether people smoke or not.
lifA, the trp genes, the perforin-encoding gene and a few other genes can be generally recognized as interspecies residents of a 'plasticity zone' located near the terminus of replication [ 2].
But reverence can also cause damage: on the 13th-century bronze statue of St. Peter near the main altar, attributed to Florentine architect-sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio, the lips and fingers of countless pilgrims have worn away the toes of its right foot.