I can't see near objects very clearly without my glasses.

He was near unconscious when I found him.

I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.

[…] he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France […]

Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.

Peter ran after them as fast as his legs would carry him, but at last he had only one of the hares left, and when this was gone, he was very near burst with running.

Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.

"I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.

The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.

There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.

He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.

It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.

Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

His opinions are near the limit of what is acceptable.

There was no way Brín felt anything anywhere near what I felt for him. He saw me as a friend.

We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London.

As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.

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