His work in the field began nearly 20 years ago.

I, on the other hand, have thought of him nearly every day since.

Nearly half the 122 members are under 40, including 13 20-somethings.

The Iraq war has gone on now for nearly three.

For nearly a year and a half the two did not talk.

After all, they had nearly two weeks left to play together.

Nearly everything has been found or made in the last six months.

Nearly half say they like the same kind of music as their parents.

They are summer food, and their time is nearly here.

Real pay is up nearly 2 percent from a year ago.

Nearly all of the school system's 3,500 students go on to college.

In 1998, the next town is not nearly far enough.

He was 15, about the same age as nearly all the dead.

A couple of them said they had been here nearly three years.

And the results were nearly as good for most of last year.

Nearly three years after his death, he still seems very much with us.

Nearly every building and street seems to have a story to tell.

In a few years, they saw nearly all of America.

But the last 16 minutes of the first half were nearly as important.

Among nearly 300 million Americans today, about 13 percent are black.

Both companies have been in business for nearly 100 years.

In 1950, nearly half of men over 65 were still working.

Nearly 300 children line up each day to see him.

Today, nearly half the students at both schools are young women.

For children under 11, the figure is nearly 10 percent.

In 1998, the next town is not nearly far enough.

Not nearly all, but for them the little was enough.

Not nearly as pretty, but the same kind of looks.

Not nearly so bad as the name would make you think.

But she was not nearly as open the second time around.

Now we know much more about them, yet not nearly enough.

I am not nearly good enough for one such as she.

But on second look, things were not nearly so simple.

Now an hour is not nearly enough time, he said.

There are not nearly enough of them to go around.

It turned out to be not nearly so difficult the second time.

I have not nearly made up my mind, but it may be.

Not nearly enough blood for what we'd done to him.

I had no money at all, and not nearly enough education to do much.

But this was not nearly enough to end the matter.

It was not nearly enough water to put out the fire.

The second half of the book is not nearly so successful.

But as we have found to our cost, this is not nearly good enough.

They had one half to point to, but it was not nearly enough.

This may be true, but it is not nearly enough.

But for most of the families it was not nearly enough.

You know, it's not nearly as difficult the second time.

There are too many patients, and not nearly enough staff.

Oh, I was making something, sure, but not nearly enough to get by on.

Soon, there was not nearly enough to support a man and his son.