1.   Blake was to be wrapped up in this sooty, surreptitious London nearly all his life.

2.   But because of the blizzard nearly all federal workers here were forced to spend another day away from the office.

3.   But critics say nearly all the killings have somehow involved the brutal state police.

4.   By early afternoon he has unpacked nearly all the boxes and stacked them in the hall.

5.   Confounding nearly all expectations, he and his cut-throat regime proved highly resilient.

6.   Contrary to such forecasts, nearly all the indices of human progress have improved since the dawn of the industrial age.

7.   Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky.

8.   His colleagues nearly all wrote letters of glowing congratulation.

9.   However, it was found in nearly all those cancer patients whom modern medicine could not help.