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  • He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • He nearly knocked over a couple of pop fans en route. The Sun
  • Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface. Transactions - American Philosophical Society
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  • She nearly gasped out loud at this insult.
  • The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
  • A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
  • John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
  • Nearly 40 parents were prosecuted for their child's non-attendance.
  • Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective. The Sun
  • Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
  • Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.
  • It was taxing to repeat the performance, and took nearly twice as long to finish drawing the sigils and runes.
  • It nearly brought a tear to my eye when I saw thousands of screaming fans watching a bunch of (and I use the term affectionately) nerds out there doing their thing. Sun Bloggers
  • But because Americans are not nearly as fond of dates as they are of coffee, java came out on top due to sheer popularity.
  • He nearly had a heart attack himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center.
  • First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
  • The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
  • She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
  • More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
  • My ships have now unloaded five thousand tons of kit for five and a half thousand troops -- that's nearly a ton each! ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • The audience was nearly all men.
  • There is a modeling clay that is nearly all silver once it is baked in your oven.
  • The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
  • With nearly eight weeks of education behind us the faces of speakers were beginning to blend together.
  • When the polls closed for the day at 5.30 pm university officials said nearly 5,000 people had cast their votes.
  • I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
  • The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
  • I nearly gasp out loud, one hand flying back to my mouth.
  • My parents divorced nearly 50 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Salammbo
  • I commend it also for nearly making it work. Times, Sunday Times
  • She works in nearly 10 homes, making chapatis and doing all other household chores.
  • The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
  • The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
  • It sounded like a dull roar at first, but now it was nearly deafening.
  • In total, nearly 7,000 people have died in communal conflicts since 1999.
  • Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
  • To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report
  • Consumers remain hunkered down, and the Federal Reserve is nearly tapped out in providing monetary stimulus, so it can't replicate the sharp cuts in interest rates that gave the economy a big lift in the 1980s. Lessons of Reagan's Rebound
  • After about two hours of tweets mentioning the lay-off, Philip Brasher broke the silence, also with a tweet: "Saddest part: DM Register opened bureau nearly 80 yrs ago to cover ag policy when Wallace became ag secy. Paula Crossfield: Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher Is Bad for Food
  • The one dramatic moment in the film, when Wayne tries to escape from his captors, is a let-down, and it doesn't last nearly as long as one would hope.
  • Many dinosaur skeletons that are nearly intact have also been unearthed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite suffering with emetophobia for nearly 75 years, last year she finally tackled her fear with the support of a therapist.
  • Sales of soap products have gone up from £76m in 1981 to £173m 20 years later while sales of baby wipes have nearly tripled in the last 15 years.
  • An insect's body covering, the cuticle, contains fat layers making the cuticle nearly waterproof and preventing water loss.
  • Poor female alpacas are pregnant for nearly 12 months and have no sooner had a baby, known as a cria, than they are keen to breed again. IcBirmingham
  • A range of software, shareware and applications emerge nearly every other day from different corners of the Tamil speaking world.
  • The sun was nearly blinding, but it made for a gloriously bright day.
  • Elegantly erotic statues stood once more in alcoves around the room, and the massive murals were nearly finished.
  • Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal The nearly complete Bolognese sauce heats on a stove top. Hold the...Well, Nothing
  • This class may be made to print much more rapidly than our ordinary silver printing process, approaching sometimes more nearly to the calotype development in this respect. Photographic Reproduction Processes
  • Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
  • The line on which we now found ourselves was in general close to, but still below, the crest of the ridge at nearly all points. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
  • Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
  • By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
  • For history buffs, nearly every community in the province has its own collection of historical exhibits displayed in tiny museums.
  • This finding came about because of one lonely air quality monitor near the cowtown area of western Pinal County, nearly 40 miles and across the mountains from downtown Phoenix," he said. Los Angeles Tops Nation In Air Polution
  • Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull.
  • Nearly one in ten were conned by fake companies claiming they'd get their payout. The Sun
  • I went home so pumped full of steroids that I literally went without sleep for nearly three weeks.
  • It was already nearly eight o'clock.
  • Nearly everything about cycling is more interesting than casual observers assume.
  • Firstly, the verbal preambles to nearly all of his songs seemed very long and involved - a shortcoming of many singer/song-writers.
  • She was nearly demented with worry when her son didn't come home.
  • Ford's maiden small-car, Figo, helped the Michigan-based auto maker improve sales multifold in India, and nearly two-thirds of Figo's sales are from its diesel variant. GM India Launches Chevrolet Beat Diesel Car
  • Sunday morning was sunless and nearly cold, so we didn't even try to look for any more herbs.
  • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians. Che Guevara 
  • My students became really interested in what all these idioms meant, so I developed an art/language unit on the usage of idioms, that would be appropriate for nearly any grade level.
  • But archæological research having established the fact that phallicism has, at one time or another, been common to nearly all races, it seems probable that the Arunta tribe represents a deviation from the normal line of mental evolution. Bygone Beliefs
  • There was widespread destruction on the island of Sant’ Elena, where an even larger disaster was narrowly averted by when the twister nearly struck a crowded vaporetto moored at a pontile. A Tornado in Venice
  • None of the other posters are going to believe you're a woman, even if you are, so the word fangirl doesn't get nearly as much use. You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy
  • Nearly three-quarters of staff took part in voluntary charitable activities during work time last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nearly the only cadmium mineral known is the sulphide, greenockite, but no deposits of this mineral have been found of sufficient volume to be called cadmium ores. The Economic Aspect of Geology
  • It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
  • The church has slid so far into consumerism it is nearly impossible to live out your faith without paying for it.
  • She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
  • Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now, but there are not nearly enough.
  • An anti-runway warhead which is equipped with a delayed action fuse has the capability of penetrating reinforced concrete runways to a depth of nearly 0.5m.
  • This produced no immediate effect; he then got a small bundle of different kinds of medicinal woods, and, burning them in a potsherd nearly to ashes, used the smoke and hot vapor arising from them as an auxiliary to the other in causing diaphoresis. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • So the passage down the full and slumbery Fal seemed nearly a soundless thing. Tell England A Study in a Generation
  • All being so nearly ready, I called the drowsy boy again, and, showing him a very large stick in the wood-box, asked him to bring me a hatchet. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
  • Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the _phosphuret of sulphur_? Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • European settlers nearly wiped them out and mass battles ensued with cowboys. The Sun
  • Contrary to such forecasts, nearly all the indices of human progress have improved since the dawn of the industrial age.
  • Sometimes tedding once, and in nearly all instances twice, will be sufficient. Clovers and How to Grow Them
  • She swallowed a humph, then nearly groaned aloud when, clapping her hands, Lady Hightham urged them to gather around for some music. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest. ‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’
  • Nearly 10 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by ice.
  • I had simply never clicked with anyone like that in nearly 20 years of searching and trying.
  • Cal drove to work, nearly missing the turn-off into the gym.
  • He'd been running the clinic at a substantial profit for nearly ten years.
  • That's because he very nearly lost the lot through a catalogue of misfortune three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are many reasons why IBM nearly went belly-up, not least the fact that Big Blue had become a bureaucratic monster.
  • Even as home prices continued to fall industrywide and the number of new houses under construction kept sinking, Paul Saville , the chief executive of NVR Inc., received total 2010 compensation valued at nearly $31 million, according to NVR's proxy statement. NVR Pays Top Dollar
  • In one study, led by Dr. Alejandro Hoberman of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, nearly 300 infected toddlers were given ten days of treatment with either dummy pills or an antibiotic called amoxicillin-clavulanate. Reuters: Top News
  • The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
  • The effect of this mixture is a dilatation, which is nearly as four thousand to unity; and the lead in your barrel exhibits another effect, which is the product of its bulk multiplied by its velocity. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery.
  • On view are nearly 100 sculptures in beeswax, paper and bronze, along with photographs, miniatures and drawings in an exhibition largely installed by the artist.
  • Oil prices shot up nearly US $1.50 a barrel yesterday as oil and natural gas producers evacuated rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Nearly 30 uniformed cops and detectives took part in a search of the property. The Sun
  • The functions which may be exercised by parish, town and community councils are nearly all concurrent functions with district councils.
  • The swelling in his face is nearly gone and he's much more alert and active, which is really encouraging.
  • Stock in the FTSE 250 maker of telecoms testing equipment has risen nearly threefold in the space of a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
  • The _sauba_ ants had cut nearly all the strings of Filippe's hammock; while he was resting peacefully on it the remainder of the strings broke, and he had a bad fall. Across Unknown South America
  • Now 3 babies and 7 years later my thyroid is nearly burned out and I take a thyroid supplement every morning. » No Time to Be Sick Strocel.com
  • Her smooth black hair fell around her shoulders, and her cream-coloured dress nearly matched her pale complexion.
  • And in clubbing Clement Sunday in 1 hour, 46 minutes with a nearly flawless baseline game, Agassi showed he is as strong as ever. USATODAY.com - Agassi, Capriati return to tennis' elite
  • Cars, trucks and buses produce exhaust nearly as harmful as the factories.
  • It takes nearly two hours to reach the bottom at a depth of just over 3, 000 meters.
  • There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds. Slippy (Music (For Robots))
  • When I cannot get them, I substitute for them with jicama, a South American tuber that has a nearly identical texture, and a similar, though slightly starchier flavor. Tigers & Strawberries » It Isn’t Just About the Crunch
  • Coffee, sugar, cotton, and indigo (a blue dye) from Haiti accounted for nearly one-half of France's foreign trade.
  • This year, nearly 150 teachers and teaching aspirants have enrolled for the one-month certificate programme.
  • High quality dot matrix printing which looks nearly as good as material which has been typed.
  • The roads then would be nearly empty. The Sun
  • Nearly all the city plans have human figures in the foreground. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, the "tumbril," as we called it, arrived each day for nearly a week, and we drove off gaily to the appointed spot and saturated ourselves in the characteristics of the land we were shortly to attack. Bullets & Billets
  • The exterior design of the new addition was to provide a nearly seamless expansion of the original historic hall.
  • Eventually, faster-maturing, fine-fleeced Merinos replaced them, and the breed became nearly extinct, both here and abroad.
  • The second crew lifted off on 28 July of the same year and remained on board for nearly 59 days.
  • I was actually pleasant sort of but then his companion came in to view and I nearly gagged on my own spit.
  • Nearly half of all schoolchildren in London have had at least one tutor, but a quarter of those outside the capital have too. Times, Sunday Times
  • The discovery of the ruins came after a mudslide flushed out a deep trench nearly two-kilometers long and 25-meters wide through rice fields late last month.
  • Britain is importing nearly half the fruit and vegetables it consumes each year, according to previously unreported government figures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rambling, no voice projection, no point to their speech, nearly Dadaist slides. Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem
  • Phase II of the project will add another 15 MW of power, for a total of 25 MW, which is enough to power nearly fifteen thousand homes. New Geothermal Technology Could Tap 120,000MW of Energy | Inhabitat
  • Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
  • Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range. Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report
  • A million cubic meters of contaminated dirt has been converted into parkland, nearly 3,000 apartments, and shopping centers, all with high tech amenities and smart energy meters to make future improvements plug-and-play. Terry Tamminen: The City of the Future Is Already Here
  • TD: Well, it's my first new studio music in nearly twenty years, and I've written most of the music in England in the wheelhouse of my solar powered lifeboat looking out over the North Sea, which is a very inspiring place to be. Mike Ragogna: TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana : A Conversation with Thomas Dolby
  • There have been nearly 400 decreases in deposit account returns since the beginning of August and more are in the pipeline. Times, Sunday Times
  • A love that nearly made it wants to retry but this is not your only option. The Sun
  • My son is nearly 4. He dribbles constantly and has to wear a bib almost all the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air.
  • It was to be Johnson's first meeting with the board in nearly a month.
  • By the term heptarchy is understood that complexus of seven kingdoms, into which, roughly speaking, Anglo-Saxon Britain was divided for nearly three centuries, until at last the supremacy, about the year The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • He is, in every way, the anti-Randle El. (And yeah, Lorenzo Alexander was probably the actual best special teamer Sunday night, but he's not nearly as huggable.) Redskins-Colts, Best and Worst
  • The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
  • Will, dragging Raven behind him, who was also nearly falling asleep after being awake all night, left and shut the door quietly behind him.
  • They cannot be done away with since the French universities have become accessible for an ever increasing number of students since nearly 50\% of the population pass their "bac" or final high school exam. The Modern Regime, Volume 2
  • In the 20 largest deals since 1995, the average combined company underperformed the market by nearly 13%.
  • Andrian Fadeyev, Vishneva's loyal and well-matched partner over the years, also built his role by degrees, although he underplayed it nearly too well in the first act. Mariinsky's 'Giselle': Less is more
  • In Cuba, huge waves crashed into Havana, swamping neighborhoods up to four blocks inland with floodwaters reaching up to nearly a meter in some places.
  • The Harps looked to have this game in the bag only to nearly throw it away, conceding numerous needless frees.
  • I guess that's what happens when you have nearly copped it.
  • The breakfront is nearly identical to a desk of about 1805 in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that has a provenance in the Crown-insheld family of that city.
  • He claims that the morale he had developed during the double-header against Iceland and Canada in October, closely followed by the trip to Portugal, was unravelled by nearly three subsequent months without a match.
  • As I am aware that the jack hammers from the next block all last summer were intrusive and you know darn well the birds that roosted in the abandoned former furniture factory trees this past year nearly drove me out of my mind - before I decided to set off cohetes during the day and early evening to run them off, which worked, but drives your dogs crazy for which I am very sorry. Sound ordinance in ajijic?
  • The lips of the choroidal fissure, containing the hyaloid vessels, are fused or nearly so.
  • Geographically, it's part of Polynesia and it's home to nearly 1,000 mysterious statues called moai, positioned across the island like sentries. For Chile, Colossal Trouble On Easter Island
  • Revenue from brown goods, including televisions and hi-fis, rose nearly 12 per cent.
  • I stare at the snow drifting outside my window, at the nearly deserted street below, trying not to think about anything.
  • Almost immediately, Sprague tags a braking Rezendes in the rear bumper, nearly sending Rezendes into a 180-degree spin.
  • The last serving member from the Battle of Long Tan is retiring from service this month after nearly four decades of military service.
  • Existing beaked whale populations are found in nearly every ocean.
  • Current conditions are not nearly as bad as some sourpusses would have us believe.
  • Alas, nearly every question that I raised in my last letter remain unanswered.
  • Nearly £7 billion has been wiped off share prices worldwide.
  • Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
  • In some areas nearly all robbery and burglary is drug related to pay for the next fix.
  • And nearly two-thirds support Government plans for pay based on performance. The Sun
  • The fact that nearly a quarter of respondents saw through the bias is itself impressive.
  • The machine monitor who has worked for the company for nearly 39 years said the news was a shock.
  • While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup. Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
  • De Jong pesters Hutton down the left, and nearly gets in on goal, but the full-back is as staunch as only a former Rangers player can be. Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened
  • In the Senate race, the Republican outspent his rival by nearly $2 million.
  • Your approach will work but the sail will not be nearly as good as one designed as a staysail to begin with.
  • He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
  • The first question that occurs to the enlightened enquirer, when he learns that the functions of the brain have been positively determined by experiment, is whether the cranioscopy of Gall and Spurzheim was successful in locating the cerebral functions, and how nearly their inferences from development correspond with the revelations of experiment. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
  • My viperous tongue had nearly destroyed me again.
  • Neuman revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour.
  • Stroke what used to be called "apoplexy" is probably the best known of such injuries, something that touches nearly every family, since it's the number one long-term disability in the U.S. Like Paul, many stroke survivors end up with aphasia-- and face not only the challenge of re-learning language but also redefining their relationship with loved ones, which may include new obstacles and fewer words. Diane Ackerman: What My Husband and Gabrielle Giffords Share
  • A gyroscope is a wheel or disc mounted in such a way that it is free to rotate around an axis as well as to move linearly along the other two axes.
  • Her second suitcase nearly always contained a pair of flippers, a snorkel and mask. Times, Sunday Times
  • The jinrikisha is the common mode of conveyance, though the palanquin is perhaps nearly as much used. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
  • The stockpile has 40 million treatment courses of Tamiflu, 10 million courses of Relenza and nearly three million courses of an adamantane. In the War Against Flu's Mutants, a Big Ally Is Weakened
  • The play is interesting as an exercise, but the ‘plot twist’ comes too late in the game for an audience that is nearly catatonic itself by the end of the first act.
  • This area requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the surreptitious cost of the car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year in the U.S. alone, much of that going to the sustentation of a military presence in the Persian Gulf. Driving Mister Barack
  • The sea cows went on schlooping and grazing, and chumping in the weed and Kotick asked them questions in every language that he had picked up in his travels; and the Sea People talk nearly as many languages as human beings. The Jungle Book.
  • But these days, the chief executive of U.K.-based Kingfisher PLC, the world's third-largest home-improvement group, has a problem that no amount of do-it-yourself labor can fix: His company derives nearly half of its profits from continental Europe. CEOs' Message: Fix Europe, Or Else
  • And then a great boulder, hurled by the mangonel, nearly found its mark. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • As someone who's always found Bob Dylan amusing and kind of absurd, I guffawed (at 3 a.m.; scared the opossums) at Idle's startling transformation into ol 'Uncle Bobby, strummin' and harpin 'and bleatin' nearly incomprehensibly about Brian's theme of "Individuals. Gregory Weinkauf: Not the Messiah: Monty Python Strikes Again!
  • Randy Krajewski, who plays accordion, bass, concertina, and piano and sings, appears to be the driving force behind this homage, and the band pulls it off nearly flawlessly.
  • The lowest income communities in America have become virtual matriarchies nearly devoid of men. Wendy Sachs: Why Men Matter
  • This is a site you could spend a week roaming around, finding information about nearly everything about architecture.
  • I was nearly scalded in the desert.
  • You could spend nearly the whole day watching nothing but nature documentaries, and if you did you would emerge exhausted.
  • Community plans, future urbanizing area plans, suburban cities' general plans are nearly all written and waiting for implementation.
  • Nearly 10 percent of all students were identified as gifted, compared to 8. 4 percent of the work-inhibited population.
  • In September, the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 hovered morosely at 18.1 percent, nearly double the national average for that month. Balancing the recession on the backs of the young « Dating Jesus
  • You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
  • Their countries had been at war for nearly six weeks.
  • Exemption from taxes will do little or nothing, the lower orders [end of page #249] are nearly all exempt, but that general dearness, that is the consequence of a general weight of taxes, is severely felt by them, and from that they cannot be exempted. An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged
  • The architecture attested to its ancient heritage, with massive castle-like structures adorned with spires and turrets on nearly every building.

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