They'd eaten nearly everything.
- almostWe need to hurry up - it's almost time to go.
- nearlyIt's nearly midnight.
- nearHe was near tears (= almost crying).
- aboutAre you about ready to leave?
- all butThe concert was all but over by the time we arrived.
- well-nighIt was well-nigh impossible to get a person on the phone these days.
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not nearly enough
much less than you want or need:
There's not nearly enough food for all these people!
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nearly
As in past years, nearly threefourths of cases in 1999 were resolved through advice, referral, or brief services.
Much of the semitic discourse at this time had, as we have seen, been in place for nearly half a century.
Nearly half were formed with suffixes through derivation, and half through compounding.
The similarity is so close that certain phrases are nearly interchangeable.
The trimming is unusually steep and is nearly vertical.
Of those 188, nearly three-quarters used either a standard traditional or a standard neutral preamble.
Nearly all the plays he is known to have written after 1606 are touched by it.
Nearly 40 % of students thought a more multicultural approach to content would be appealing.
Nearly a generation later, things seem not to have altered greatly.
During the 1991 - 2 fiscal year nearly 79 per cent of government fiscal resources were allocated to the recurrent budget.
Nearly 2,000 students in 1957-58- approaching two-fifths of the total- were in the category of either" manual workers" or" non-manual, technical and supervisory workers".
The longest diameter of the specimen is nearly 15 cm.
Investment is forecast to fall by 6 per cent and employment by nearly 4 per cent.
Among mammals by contrast, viviparity and lactation mean that the limiting resource is nearly always the female's rearing capacity.
The proportion of married women falls to just over two in ten, and the proportion widowed rises to nearly two-thirds.
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