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Example sentences for: nearing

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Went to the Kennedy Center Thursday night to see the Los Angeles Opera's production of The Abduction from the Seraglio , which is nearing the end of a one-month run.
More important, needed improvements in infrastructure — estimated at over a billion dollars — are nearing completion, which should also improve the cleanliness of the city and bay.
"The Alliance is nearing the point where Serb forces have been so damaged that NATO troops could be committed at acceptable risk.
As the human genome reference sequence is nearing completion, the analysis of genetic variation is becoming important.
We'd like to achieve this without actually being forced to tell him to **** off, but we're nearing our rope's end.