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Example sentences for: nearly

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Bailey attributed the error to an overestimation of the total world fertility rate, which (his book documents) has nearly halved since the early 1960s.
Sullum reaches back to King James I's 1603 anti-tobacco tirade, A Counterblaste to Tobacco , to prove that the is nearly as old as the smoking habit itself.
More than 94 percent of law students reported borrowing money to attend law school, where median tuition is nearly $23,000 a year, but law students are not alone in having to contend with spiraling education costs.
Not wanting to be seen as a censor is the defense of nearly everyone who has helped MacDonald make his upward climb toward respectability.
For the ligament the slope of the stress-strain curve becomes nearly constant in the prefailure phase.