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    nearly
    [ adv ]
    1. (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

    2. <adv.all>
      the job is (just) about done
      the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded
      we're almost finished
      the car all but ran her down
      he nearly fainted
      talked for nigh onto 2 hours
      the recording is well-nigh perfect
      virtually all the parties signed the contract
      I was near exhausted by the run
      most everyone agrees
    3. in a close manner

    4. <adv.all>
      the two phenomena are intimately connected
      the person most nearly concerned


    Nearly \Near"ly\, adv.
    In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost;
    as, he nearly lost his life in the accident.

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    2. The Army, by comparison, would have half of its top 14 acquisition programs terminated next year and its budget slashed nearly 15% by the fall of 1994.
    3. Mr. Blanc later created nearly all the famous voices in the Looney Tunes universe, basing each on the physical characteristics and personality of the creature presented to him on story boards.
    4. The Rhode Island Democrat received only a single $5,000 contribution in the first half of this year despite the threat of a strong Republican opponent for the first time in nearly two decades.
    5. In the first 26 weeks of 1990, nearly five times more cases were diagnosed in Washington than during all of 1989, when 55 measles cases were reported, state health officials said.
    6. The contest, sponsored by Lions Club International, examined entries from nearly 100,000 children in 49 countries.
    7. Already, however, a rental car out of Salt Lake airport gets hit with nearly a 10% levy.
    8. Terrified by a new wave of political violence, the family of an abducted human rights activist fled this country Saturday after spending nearly six weeks holed up in a room at the Red Cross.
    9. Jackson's white support, up from about 5 percent four years ago, was bolstered by a nearly unanimous black vote, WNBC-TV and ABC News polls said.
    10. Inflation is expected to average nearly 5%, up from 4.3% in 1990, and the average jobless rate is seen climbing to 6.7% from 6.2%.
    11. "When I saw where my aunt lived _ she had one little room and the use of a kitchen _ I nearly died," she said.
    12. So when party leader Neil Kinnock spoke of the need for realism, he meant recognizing the irrevocable change wrought by nearly 10 years of Mrs. Thatcher's rigorous brand of conservatism.
    13. Indeed, the Census Bureau reports that nearly 6,000 Americans turn 65 every day.
    14. Miles of absorbent boom contained nearly all the oil in the narrow channel and spared the Shooters Island bird sanctuary, Coast Guard officials said.
    15. It was the older Knievel who made the jump famous and turned himself into a household name in the process when he crashed on landing and flipped like a rag doll through the parking lot and broke nearly ever bone in his body.
    16. The Popular Front of Moldavia claimed Tuesday it had won about half the settled legislative races, but runoffs will be required in nearly two-thirds of the contests.
    17. The dollar shed nearly three pfennig and about one and a half yen overall, surprising many traders who had expected the U.S. currency to test the upper end of its range.
    18. By official count, 12 people had been killed and more than 100 wounded in violence since Sunday when Tibetans marched in Lhasa, demanding an end to nearly four decades of communist rule and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
    19. Under the currency union, East Germans had their wages converted from nearly worthless East German marks to West German marks at an artificially high 1-1 exchange.
    20. Contra leaders said last week that nearly all 12,000 of the rebels in the camps had returned home.
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    22. Hyatt alone is building three such resorts in Hawaii, including one that will feature a swimming pool nearly an acre in size, with waterfalls and swim-up bars.
    23. No injuries were reported and some raiders appeared in a nearly festive mood.
    24. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India ended a visit to China today with the two nations expressing a common desire to improve ties after nearly three decades of strained relations.
    25. The state Board of Pardons today rejected a plea for clemency from convicted "Hi-Fi" murderer William Andrews, scheduled to die by injection early Tuesday after nearly 15 years on death row.
    26. Authorities last week announced the seizure of nearly 100 tons of steel tubing and other parts about to be shipped out of Italy to Jordan to be transported overland from there, presumably to an assembly point near Baghdad.
    27. By today, the winds had dropped by nearly half and the Brisbane Weather Office said the storm was no longer a major threat to coast communities.
    28. This year's shipments, primarily from Australia and New Zealand but also more than a dozen other countries, are forecast at 2.08 billion pounds, nearly twice the amount of exports.
    29. With a complete new car costing nearly Dollars 1.5bn to develop, the study says, collaboration and further outsourcing is inevitable.
    30. The tightened standards at First Chicago apply to any securities firm with junk bonds in its inventory, though it isn't likely that any would be nearly as affected as Drexel.
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