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Example sentences for: nearer

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Whether the correct figure is nearer 500 or 5,000, it is a minuscule percentage of the 1.5 million abortions performed each year in the United States.
Though part of the Portuguese empire since the great expedition teams of the 15th century claimed it for King João I, Madeira is nearer to Africa than Lisbon.
Nearer to Syntagma, in Koloktroni Square, is the National Historical Museum with a collection of artifacts dating from post-Classical times.
Nearer the port, a passage leads to the Museu de Cera (Wax Museum), a tourist trap with a collection of some three hundred realistic wax effigies.
The big green-and-white boat weaves its way through an ever-changing obstacle course of both large and small craft, and the soaring skyline of Hong Kong Island draws nearer.