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Example sentences for: near

How can you use “near” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Skeat had taken the trouble to consult the Indexes as I have done, his eye would certainly, whilst looking for Cambridge , have been caught, as my own was, by Cantabridga , which stands very near to it.
Second, while some - but nowhere near all - of these tools are available in commercial packages, such products are expensive.
Leaning on anecdotal evidence, the LAT says in a front piece that California's most severely ill mental patients get sufficient care only after actual or near catastrophes.
While FDA Rule is nowhere near as dramatic as other spots of its ilk (one shows a tobacco junkie smoking through a hole in her neck; another, a teen smoker's face putrefying, shedding worms, as she brushes her teeth; a third, Marlboro Man Wayne McLaren dying of lung cancer), it makes its point: Hook one kid early with promotions, and peer pressure will do the rest.
Recent advances in the application of green fluorescent protein (GFP) as an in vivo tag of specific chromosomal regions promises to revolutionize our ability to observe chromatin-based processes in near real-time [ 13].