Nearly
Meanings and phrases
nearly
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; about; almost; most; near; nigh; virtually; well-nigh
- in a close manner; closely; intimately
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- FunTown has developed nearly all games in-house.
- are fungi that are present in nearly all soils.
- As of 2013, nearly all built still remain in service.
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- She even played fiddle on nearly every track for them.
- They were present at nearly every WAAKE-UP!
- The planes machine-gunned nearly every rooftop in the town.
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- No one had felt their board in nearly half a decade.
- Grant, lost nearly half of its men, 209 of 428.
- The riot took up nearly half an hour with all the replays.
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- All three schools are nearly identical in design.
- PITA rules are nearly identical to ATA rules.
- Both components have a nearly identical API.
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- She was unable to fly for nearly a year after.
- He left the series for nearly a year and a half to recover.
- Planning for the chariot race took nearly a year to complete.
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- It was their last single in the UK for nearly a decade.
- For nearly a decade, Algardi struggled for recognition.
- Ellis remained at Xerox PARC and Stanford University for nearly a decade.
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- The album was released nearly two years later.
- Christina spent nearly two years on the tour of this album.
- The union and board have been in negotiations for nearly two years.
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- The first step of the project is nearly complete.
- The oldest nearly complete version, E breaks off at this point.
- Denver also has a nearly complete beltway known as "the 470's".
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- Surprise would be nearly impossible to achieve.
- The existing tax system made free trade nearly impossible.
- Its removal is nearly impossible without mechanical means.
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- Creators will nearly always copyright their games.
- The condition is nearly always limited to one side.
- Thus, there nearly always exists a shortage for buyers.
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- CNTs are not nearly as strong under compression.
- He is a powerful wizard, but not nearly as skilled as Han.
- Crime was not nearly as widespread in other cities and towns.
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- The birth was a difficult one and nearly killed Phiny.
- Gratus is thrown from his spooked horse and nearly killed.
- We're finally putting out the record that nearly killed us.
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- In , he spent nearly the entire year in the majors.
- Burton spent nearly 23 years (1975 to 1997) with ABC.
- Scaife spent nearly $2 million on the project.
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- However, the project languished for nearly two decades.
- For nearly two decades, he worked as an architect and made paintings in Amherst.
- Auzenne spent nearly two decades in Corporate America as a manager and executive.
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- gla1ve, however, killed s1mple at nearly the same time.
- The crater has nearly the same low albedo as the nearby surface.
- In 1877 it was separated by with nearly the same position angle (121°).
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- This form of government continued for nearly a century.
- It would not spread to the rest of Europe for nearly a century.
- What started Siegel and Shuster nearly a century ago is still going strong today.
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- At the same time, nearly twenty units were disbanded.
- It was then rejected by nearly twenty book publishers.
- This design remained unchanged for nearly twenty years.
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- He nearly doubled the height record in 2010 to .
- In terms of calories, domestic output nearly doubled.
- During his reign the palace nearly doubled in surface.
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- The album sold nearly ten thousand copies in Taiwan.
- As he put it, "For nearly ten years I had clung to Nanny.
- It was Bo's first national broadcasting work in nearly ten years.
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- In , he spent nearly the entire year in the majors.
- The following year the Maroons signed nearly the entire Montreal A.A.A.
- By the end of the decade, nearly the entire landfill had been developed.
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- The journey took 77 days and very nearly ended in disaster.
- Thus, the Earth's average temperature is very nearly stable.
- All the same it's a major work and very nearly a masterpiece...
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- After nearly three years in prison, he was deported to Siberia.
- Shaw worked for nearly three years as a daily newspaper reporter.
- For nearly three years the manuscript was published by Suhrkamp Verlag.
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- It cost £77,000, nearly twice the original budget.
- It has an estimated 162% of the Sun's mass and nearly twice the Sun's radius.
- Classes 11, 12 and 21 were nearly twice as powerful as Classes 22, 23 and 25.
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- Another pier in Port Aransas was nearly destroyed.
- It was nearly destroyed by a fire in 1994.
- The library was nearly destroyed by fire on December 13, 1979.
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- In all, he served on city council for nearly thirty years.
- Among her many roles in a career of nearly thirty years were:
- By the late 1990's, courts in nearly thirty states recognized the claim.
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- The project took nearly a full year to be produced.
- It took nearly 20 years for public opinion to shift.
- It took nearly 40 minutes for the first surgeon to show up.
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- This design remained unchanged for nearly twenty years.
- Philpott suffered from various forms of cancer for nearly twenty years.
- The chromosomal region of 18q has shown consistent LOH for nearly twenty years.
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- It is Minaj's first album in nearly four years, following "The Pinkprint" (2014).
- He spent nearly four years at Highbury, but was never a regular first team player.
- April 13th, 2019 Cypress Gardens reopened after nearly four years of being closed.
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- The stem is long by thick, and nearly equal in width throughout its length.
- The Balkan Mountains divide Bulgaria into two nearly equal drainage systems.
- Another problem of loss of significance occurs when two nearly equal numbers are subtracted.
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- Ball speeds are nearly double that of an average golfer (220 mph).
- Tau Eridani has 178% of the Sun's mass and nearly double the radius of the Sun.
- For this reason, as mentioned above, the true rate of interest is nearly double.
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- Hofman reported nearly fifty people had attended.
- Between 1906 and 1973, Robinne would appear in nearly fifty films.
- For nearly fifty years this group raised funds to support a library.
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- As he put it, "For nearly ten years I had clung to Nanny.
- It was Bo's first national broadcasting work in nearly ten years.
- It is her first tour in nearly ten years after the Back To Basics Tour.
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- But for nearly forty days they remained intact.
- He wrote nearly forty cover stories.
- The topographical survey he carried out will still be used nearly forty years later.
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- Today, the variety is nearly extinct on the island.
- Its speakers are shifting to Tagalog, and it is nearly extinct.
- Hmwaeke dialect is nearly extinct.
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- The book reportedly sold nearly two million copies.
- The album sold nearly ten thousand copies in Taiwan.
- Called the "Fengyun", Chery's first car sold nearly 30,000 units.
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- The "S" has not been repainted for nearly three decades.
- His film credits are numerous, spanning nearly three decades.
- Su retired after nearly three decades of service to the church, after which the Rev.
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- In all, he served on city council for nearly thirty years.
- Among her many roles in a career of nearly thirty years were:
- He served in the Navy for nearly thirty years, becoming a qualified submarine officer and deep-sea diver.
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- Emperor Constantine arrived nearly a month later on 14 June.
- He spent nearly a month there and suffered a lot from lack of sleep.
- It took them nearly a month to cover , and on 14 March, they cleared the ice.
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- The spire is conic, with nearly straight outlines.
- The spire is conical, with nearly straight outlines.
- The front margin of the disc is nearly straight.
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- Before he had a chance to start with the band, however, Reinhardt nearly died.
- In 1971 he and songwriter Jimmy Webb nearly died in a glider aircraft accident.
- During the filming of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", Wallach nearly died three times.
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- She survived him by nearly five years.
- He retained his post as Minister of Energy for nearly five years.
- He served nearly five years of active duty with the US Army 1st Armored Division.
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- Grant, lost nearly half of its men, 209 of 428.
- The average Venezuelan has lost nearly 24 lbs.
- The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its holdings in Europe.
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- It is insoluble in water, and nearly so in cold alcohol.
- The rules state that the body should be vertical, or nearly so, for entry.
- Their schedules are random, based as it only when the minibus is full or nearly so.
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- The trial lasted nearly three months.
- The fighting lasted nearly an hour.
- JTG lasted nearly 12 minutes before he was eliminated by The Undertaker.
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- A century ago, Europe had nearly a quarter of the world's population.
- In 2005, nearly a quarter of the population was employed by industrial factories.
- On election day, Shafer was victorious by a margin of nearly a quarter of a million votes.
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- The riot took up nearly half an hour with all the replays.
- By 1930, immigrants made up nearly 60% of Northeast's total population.
- Manufacturing makes up nearly 12% of Colombia's exports, and grows at a rate of over 10% a year.
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- Sinha made him rehearse extensively for nearly two months for the film.
- The three prosecutors spent nearly two months in court, awaiting the jury's verdict.
- He was sacked the following 14 January, after nearly two months without winning a single match.
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- As of 2015, the community is nearly completed with 756 homes.
- Once the exterior was nearly completed, the roof of the old arena was dismantled.
- A nearly completed house, worth $3 million, was burnt to the ground in Washington.
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- Vanderbilt nearly lost his yacht, the "Vagrant", on Britain's entry into the First World War.
- In May 2002, she was hit by a car in Szczecin; she suffered 26 fractures in her legs and nearly lost her left leg.
- In the 1935 general election the coalition suffered a major defeat, winning only 19 seats: Coates nearly lost Kaipara.
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- Despite the innovation, complex emoticons didn't develop in Japan until nearly a century later.
- Union forces built 3 rings of earthworks reaching ever closer until nearly from the Fort Blakely front.
- Murphy and Epps survive until nearly the end but as the ship sinks, Murphy goes off to retrieve gold ingots.
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- Its collection consists of nearly one million objects.
- The launch was cheered by a crowd of nearly one million inside the Kennedy Space Center and in the surrounding area.
- As of today, nearly one million people are living with minimal wages or unemployed not enough to cover their costs of living.
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- He received nearly 60% of the vote.
- Individually AN received nearly 5 million votes, amounting to 12.3%.
- A petition for the pardon of the border agents received nearly 240,000 signatures.
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- The topographical survey he carried out will still be used nearly forty years later.
- He remained organist of St. George's Hall nearly forty years, giving three recitals weekly.
- For nearly forty years, the seat had been held by members of the Pryse family of Gogerddan.
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- Nadia nearly kills Sydney but is shot by her father.
- He nearly kills Batman, but Dick manages to save him.
- He nearly kills Deena Shan, but she escapes with her life.
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- During World War II Bendix made nearly every ancillary instrument or equipment for military aircraft.
- Ramey had a tunnel made nearly into the north face of the mound, but it revealed nothing of historic interest.
- Throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s, Hunnicutt made nearly 40 guest appearances on American television programs.
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- Summers are warm to hot, and nearly completely dry.
- The camp was nearly completely destroyed by quarrying and bulldozing.
- The West campus is designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride and is nearly completely powered by a solar array.
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- By April, 250 tribes had risen, or nearly a third of Algeria's population.
- In 1960, nearly a third of African Americans voted for Republican Richard Nixon.
- Prisons are overcrowded and drug offenders represent nearly a third of the prison population.
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- The aperture is nearly circular.
- The aperture is nearly circular, and the sutures are deeply channeled.
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- It has nearly a hundred of contributors who write twelve columns a day.
- When she died in 1973, there were nearly a hundred Baháʼís at her funeral.
- A graduate of Columbia University, he had a prolific output, publishing four books and nearly a hundred papers.
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- In 1941, the area had a population of nearly 200,000 people.
- The nearest city is Pachino with a population of nearly 10,000.
- Letham is the largest village in Angus, with a population of nearly 2,000.
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- Between 1951 and 1969, he was also in nearly a dozen teleplays, television movies, and television series episodes.
- ASCI has since grown to include researchers from nearly a dozen universities in The Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
- A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters landed their boats near a major coastal road connecting the city of Haifa with Tel Aviv-Yafo.
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- According to host Jay Leno, not only the cast but nearly everyone at the bar was intoxicated.
- "I made the same mistake that nearly everyone has made," she said after viewing herself on screen.
- Vernon Howell's arrival on the Waco compound in 1981 was well received by nearly everyone at the Davidian commune.
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- For nearly fifty years this group raised funds to support a library.
- At an interval of nearly fifty years, there have been earthquakes in the region.
- In July, 2011 the embassy relocated to Ta'Qali from Floriana where it stood for nearly fifty years.
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- ESPN's Andrew Hood described his performance as "three nearly perfect weeks of racing."
- The city site is said to be a "nearly perfect square" of in area and was densely populated.
- Neither Anita nor Jean-Claude trust themselves alone with Asher, but as a trio, they live in nearly perfect love.
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- Member schools employ almost 4,000 full and part-time faculty, including nearly 200 Jesuits.
- He spent more than $5 million to try to qualify the proposition for the ballot, including nearly $450,000 for political consultants.
- Over 10,000 participants annually attend one or more such educational programs, including nearly 6,000 school children and 700 summer campers.
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- This sector generated US$4.6 billion in 2016, nearly as much as tourism.
- They are all grown up and don't trust love nearly as much as straight talk.
- Flat belts are still used today, although not nearly as much as in the line-shaft era.
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- The rates were never revised for nearly four decades.
- The same foster family previously took into their care hundreds of other children over nearly four decades.
- On July 30, 1948, Latchford retired at the age of 65 after working nearly four decades at the State Department.
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- In this village there are nearly one hundred families.
- In these two engagements nearly one hundred Rhode Islanders fell.
- The collection includes short and long poems, with some having nearly one hundred lines.
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- Nonetheless, Brooks received playing time in nearly all games and was the primary quarterback in a few.
- The group performed live for the first time in nearly a decade during the finale of "" on November 30, 2019.
- 8 hitter, homered for the first time in nearly four years (on July 19, 2009 when he played for the Chicago White Sox).
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- The university spent nearly a million dollars fighting the legal case.
- This caused massive flooding in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Somalia, affecting nearly a million people.
- When Rogelio learns he has lost nearly a million dollars, he swears to take revenge from the one who spoiled his business.
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- Glucose is a nearly universal and accessible source of energy.
- In developed countries, due to nearly universal advanced water treatment and sanitation practices present there, cholera is rare.
- Humans exhibit a nearly universal desire to learn and share news, which they satisfy by talking to each other and sharing information.
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- In the middle of the 17th century, nearly the whole population was decimated by an epidemic of plague.
- The record of his public work covers nearly the whole field of sanitary legislation during the last thirty years of his life.
- Instead, the flat granite-clad wall was cut with a "horizontal" band of glass running nearly the whole length of the building.
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- The Nanchang Mutineers took nearly a thousand casualties, half of them dead.
- Music of Azerbaijan builds on folk traditions that reach back nearly a thousand years.
- Internet users submitted nearly a thousand proposals, and a jury chose a short-list of six.
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- Gray added that the 1980s oil bust "nearly finished off" Westbury Square.
- Hudson bequeathed to Hall the editing of his edition of Flavius Josephus, then nearly finished.
- The judge did not order a halt to the mosque's construction, which was by that point nearly finished.
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- This led to the controller being bulky and nearly three times the size of Sony's controller.
- In January 1959, its rating was nearly three times that of the nearest competitor, "American Bandstand".
- Rental/admission fees accounted for 72% of earned income in 2011, nearly three times the average for an art museum.
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- "I've told nearly everything there is to tell.
- The family is devastated but Lil throws out nearly everything left in the house.
- She is an expert on nearly everything and plans to create the perfect filing system.
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- The Tournament has raised nearly $1,400,000 for cystic fibrosis.
- After less than one year of operation, MVP raised nearly $1,000,000.
- The See For Change fundraiser raised nearly $6,000 for children’s glasses in New York City.
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- With 46 percent of the ballots, he nearly won outright in the first primary.
- He nearly won the Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen, but ran out of gas on the last corner.
- He nearly won the overall UKFBB British bodybuilding Championships in 2000 but was pipped to the post by Mike King.
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- The length of such a day is nearly constant (24 hours ± 30 seconds).
- They are warm-blooded, i.e., they hold a nearly constant body temperature.
- Cabral had said that was all he needed for his nearly constant singing tours.
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- The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat.
- The base of the shell is nearly flat, and spirally lirate.
- It is a nearly flat territory, open to the Gulf of Cádiz in the southeast.
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- Ten minutes later the column reached a deep and nearly vertical ravine, with a Chinese fort on the other side.
- The deck was made with a sturdy chamber, the sides of the craft were nearly vertical and the bottom was rounded.
- It has a proximal relief of and a draping relief of , with a nearly vertical cliff more than high immediately above the Turbid Creek valley.
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- 6", which reached nearly two million views on YouTube.
- Floodwaters reached nearly inland and Harrisburg was nearly destroyed.
- In the 2000s, the Institute's undergraduate gender ratio reached nearly 50-50.
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- Since Alyana didn't answer all of Marco's calls, his car accidentally crashed on the truck, nearly killing him.
- In the centre, the Allied knights and infantry under Otto enjoyed initial success, scattering the French urban infantry and nearly killing Philip.
- After nearly killing the gas man, Richie and Eddie must remove an illegal gas connection from next door without disturbing their violent neighbour.
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- The instrument subsequently fell into complete neglect for nearly two centuries.
- The name "Mii-dera" ("Temple of Three Wells") came about nearly two centuries later.
- This unusual behavior was only discovered in 1982, nearly two centuries after the bees were first classified.
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- After holding this post for nearly six years he acted as judge for about a year.
- In 2010, Mahéas was found guilty of sexually harassing a female employee nearly six years earlier.
- He started at KIRO-TV in 1983, moved to rival KING-TV in 1986 for nearly six years, then back to KIRO until 1998.
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- The trial lasted nearly three months.
- Mehta began his research nearly three months after Azmi's murder.
- We learn that he has not had sex with his wife for nearly three months.
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- The series was so popular that TV6 aired the program three times a day, nearly doubling its network market share.
- Insurgent attacks increased in early 2016, nearly doubling between the last quarter of 2015 and the second quarter of 2016.
- The ride set a new Guinness World Record for highest bike ride on a high-wire, nearly doubling Wallenda's own record from 2008.
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- When unfired, it varies in colour from grey to nearly black.
- Zulu lambs that are born nearly black possess the gene called dark-brown.
- Elin explains that she often adds too much chocolate until her milk is nearly black.