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When I ask people what they regret most about high school, they nearly all say the same thing: that they wasted so much time.
Hailing a cab in Manhattan at 5:00 p.m. is nearly impossible.
Nearly three.
Somehow, a nearly bankrupt third-party publisher flashed the new Castlevania game onto the memory incompletely. As a result, an entire generation of kids in Macon, Georgia unanimously condemned it as "Simon Does Nothing but Fall into a Bottomless Pit."
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.
Svetlana was a little too merciful with the feeder mice down at the pet store. The snakes nearly starved!
He's offended at the slightest thing, he takes exception to nearly everything we say to him.
The treatment's acceptability plummeted by nearly 96% that year after researchers discovered disfiguring side effects.
I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
One of my Japanese teachers said "honya honya" instead of "blah blah." My ensuing laughter nearly gave me a hernia.
Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.
I tumbled on the truth by the merest accident, when I'd pretty nearly chucked the whole job.
英語 "という言葉niemalże"(nearly)集合で発生します。
travelling around the world2. just about
Dinner's just about ready.
You and my son are just about the same size.
英語 "という言葉niemalże"(just about)集合で発生します。
First expert 1A, 1B3. virtually
The scientific truth of evolution is so overwhelmingly established, that it is virtually impossible to refute.
Learning probably takes place in virtually every activity in which we take part.
Unemployment in this part of the country is virtually nonexistent.
Our robot can virtually do anything.
Mark is so practical and mechanical and can fix virtually anything, yet put him in the kitchen and suddenly he's all fingers and thumbs!
E-mail is virtually done.
You could see virtually every nationality and hear just about every language
I only spoke to him virtually, we've never met in real life.
In past Poland produced a diversity of crops for export, but in recent years commercial crop production has become more specialised, with products such as wheat and now rapeseed reaching record levels, virtually with each passing year.
They're virtually the same. I've virtually finished.
Due to the fact you weren't listening, you understood virtually nothing of what I said
"They have virtually nothing to do with the people in the family."
For virtually all of human existence, exercise was an integral part of our daily existence.
Even if some people survived, a civilized existence would be virtually impossible.
Virtually all sources of commercial peanut butter in the United States contain minute quantities of aflatoxin.