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Example sentences for: nearing

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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.
As the human genome reference sequence is nearing completion, the analysis of genetic variation is becoming important.
Consumer debt is nearing all-time highs.
With reference to increasing law school tuition and the boomer population of public service lawyers nearing retirement age, Greenberg added, "We're dealing with doubledigit inflation as far as the eye can see, and that's pushing so many young lawyers to private practice -- a certain type of large-firm practice with salaries of $120,000 to $160,000.
With the genome sequencing projects of M. paratuberculosis and M. avium nearing completion, we have been able to compare large amounts of sequence data for the first time.