adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
almost/nearly impossible
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He thought that winning would be almost impossible.
almost/nearly/near perfect
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His collection included an almost perfect skeleton of an armadillo.
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Her performance was near perfect.
not nearly/nowhere near enough informal (= much less than you need )
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We only had $500, and that was nowhere near enough to buy a new camcorder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
impossible
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Finding new staff is nearly impossible .
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Wuhan was in an uproar when they arrived, its streets nearly impossible because of the mobs.
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It was nearly impossible to get them to accept a surrender.
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It is possible to find safe harbor but nearly impossible to do so without a few blow-ups.
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Except in tourist hotels and restaurants, it is nearly impossible to pay with anything over a $ 5 note.
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There are long, loose episodes here that are nearly impossible to follow and probably should have been cut.
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It is difficult to accept such a change simply on intellectual grounds and nearly impossible to accept its implications.
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Domestic long-distance telephone calls often do not connect, and international calls can be nearly impossible .
■ VERB
die
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I've nearly died several times, and my back's never been strong.
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He got back in the car even though his father Bobby nearly died on a track.
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I nearly died too - I was so angry and tired and ill.
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I remembered how I had nearly died that night when Shoshana had sent us to the private clinic to guard a corpse.
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The old man had put his hands around Berry's neck until he nearly died .
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You nearly died , and you might not be so lucky next time.
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I nearly died when I saw them.
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In 1998, he was hospitalized twice for it and said later he nearly died that fall.
double
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Average incomes have nearly doubled , from $ 1,300 to $ 2,500.
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Cover and let rise about 1 hour or until nearly doubled in size.
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Illustrated fundamental problem of ownership-nearly doubles journeys made.
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With this aspect behind it, applications shot up, nearly doubling the number of EMs in the program.
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Tadpole Technology grabbed the limelight, up another 8p at 143p and nearly double its 75p offer price.
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It nearly doubled his monthly wage, from $ 3. 75 to $ 6. 50.
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Vehicle thefts have nearly doubled in two years.
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Everyone was polite, cordial, and nearly doubled up with pain.
fall
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Alejandro nearly fell off his seat.
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That he nearly fell backward off the railing when he heard her plan was no surprise.
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My legs are a bit wobbly and I nearly fall over.
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While Nikon shares fell nearly 3 percent, Nikkodo shares jumped more than 11 percent.
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The revolver nearly fell from my hands, and my whole body froze with fear.
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My grandfather beat my father till his skin nearly fell Off, but my father always said his father saved his life.
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Well, I nearly fell off, that's all, and it gave me foot a bit of a twinge.
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The High Seas Summit, as the press dubbed it, nearly fell through two days before it was to occur.
kill
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Thrift has nearly killed her on several occasions, through the agency of old sausages, slow-punctured tyres, rusty blades.
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He got back in the car even though he was nearly killed and partially blinded by a wreck in 1994.
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It was hot: it would nearly kill you.
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My husband was nearly killed because of a drunk driver.
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Having the twins nearly killed her.
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Britt becomes involved after she witnesses a carjacking that claims the life of a toddler and nearly kills his mother.
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And all because that terrible man got away that night, after he'd nearly killed Brett.
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In 1990, streptococcal toxic shock nearly killed Jessica Esquivel, then 6, of Imperial Beach.
lose
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He lost nearly all his money.
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Yosemite Concession Services says it is losing nearly $ 150, 000 in gross revenue each day the park is closed.
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He was lucky to be alive, he said. Nearly lost him, he said.
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Between 1991 and 1994, Digital lost nearly $ 6 billion.
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But he lost nearly all the glow of affection and respect in which he had retired.
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The seven companies expect to lose nearly half the money they lent after selling collateral held on the nonperforming debt.
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It has lost nearly all its muscles and become thin and whip-like, sometimes with a poisonous spine at the end.
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Yes; you nearly lost your youth.
spend
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In school we are spending nearly half as much again, in real terms per pupil, as in 1979.
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California has to spend nearly $ 2 billion a year educating undocumented children.
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He did better junior year, despite the fact that he spent nearly all of it arguing with the priests.
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You could spend nearly the whole day watching nothing but nature documentaries, and if you did you would emerge exhausted.
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Over the next three years, we are committed to spend nearly £6,000 million through the Housing Corporation to provide 153,000 homes.
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Real fans can look forward to spending nearly $ 200 for a family of four to park and watch a three-hour game.
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In her short career keep-fit fanatic Lesley has had to spend nearly nine months off duty recovering from her injuries.
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Rivas has spent nearly half his 48 years incarcerated.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I nearly died/I could have died
I nearly/almost fainted
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She wrote: I almost fainted when I read your letter, confronted by that terrible mistake I had made.
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These were removed and - oh, sweet Lord, I nearly fainted !
pretty nearly
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This can be the case with ivory, which is pretty nearly tooth material.
sb nearly/almost fell off their chair
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's nearly six feet tall.
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I nearly died from salmonella poisoning.
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Oh, my goodness, it's nearly 12:30.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alas, it was not nearly so simple, and many more complex problems remained to be solved.
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He was nearly at the feeding-ground now.
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He was wearing pale blue brushed denim pants and a pale blue shirt that made his blue eyes look nearly luminous.
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Last summer nearly saw the second ascent of Ken's Fisherman's Tale by a visiting climber.
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Porter Payne would drop by nearly every day to see how things were going.
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The blizzard also nearly froze secondary trading, participants said.
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The trouble is that anything you do, nomatterwhat, will nearly always increase the muscular tension and make the situation worse.