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Example sentences for: nearing

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

Consumer debt is nearing all-time highs.
Perhaps because we are nearing the end of a millennium, there seems to be a renewal of interest in theories of history.
Can it be that our exercise in stunt online writing is nearing its conclusion already?
As the human genome reference sequence is nearing completion, the analysis of genetic variation is becoming important.
We next determined if the nucleotide identities would remain consistently high when M. paratuberculosis sequences outside the oriC region were compared with M. avium . Sequencing of the M. paratuberculosis K-10 cattle isolate is nearing completion in our laboratories and TIGR http://www.tigr.orgis in the finishing stages of M. avium isolate 104.