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Example sentences for: nearing

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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.
In 1998, when LSC issued Program Letter 98-1, LSNJ was already nearing completion of its formal three-year Legal Services Master Plan for the period 1998-2001.
The Senate, after all, is apparently nearing a compromise on the sentencing commission, and the president will likely nominate seven new commissioners in the next few weeks.
"The Alliance is nearing the point where Serb forces have been so damaged that NATO troops could be committed at acceptable risk.
We'd like to achieve this without actually being forced to tell him to **** off, but we're nearing our rope's end.