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The under-18s constitute nearly 25% of the town's population.
Customs officers have seized nearly a ton of heroin destined for New York.
It was such a hassle trying to get my bank account changed that I nearly gave up.
They were finally reconciled with each other, after not speaking for nearly five years.
As in past years, nearly threefourths of cases in 1999 were resolved through advice, referral, or brief services.
Much of the semitic discourse at this time had, as we have seen, been in place for nearly half a century.
Nearly half were formed with suffixes through derivation, and half through compounding.
