Example sentences for: nearly

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

  • By V-J Day (15 August), when Japan officially surrendered, the Chinese Communists controlled an area inhabited by nearly one-quarter of the nation’s population.

  • Nearly every article I've seen quotes a parent or teacher saying something to the effect of "My kid never showed any interest in reading until Harry Potter came along," with the implication that the kid will now trade Pokemon for The Illiad and our civilization will be saved from the forces of darkness.

  • Moreover, direct estimates of the allele-specific effects of heterozygosity (relative to the corresponding homozygotes), nearly absent in the infectious disease-HLA literature, are frequently found in studies of HLA genotype and chronic (mostly autoimmune) diseases [ 28 29 30 ] . We do not know the reason for this difference in approach, but suspect that some infectious disease investigators, informed by the evolutionary hypothesis of overdominance for infectious disease resistance and by animal studies, may have a special interest in detecting effects of heterozygosity per se . Many studies of HLA-autoimmune disease associations, on the other hand, seem to focus more on the effects of individual alleles and, having established these, move on to investigate the dependence of these effects on genetic modifiers, including the identity of the individual's other allele at the same locus.

  • Signal intensities of the two fluorescence-measurement channels were linearly correlated for a majority of the 5,376 PCR probes, indicating that nearly all targets were labeled with each dye.

  • For example, testing of nearly 700 sera will be required to determine whether an autoantibody frequency of 5% among CMV seropositive individuals and of 1% among CMV seronegative individuals is a significant difference.


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