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Nearly half the area of the Netherlands is below sea level.

Nearly half the land in Lithuania is level and fertile enough for farming.

Petroleum accounts for nearly half the world's energy supply.

To cement together also the two surfaces of the glass diminishes by very nearly half the loss of light from reflection, which is considerable at the numerous surfaces of a combination.

As many years since, and in two places, where the goat’s-beard was abundant, as it is now, we found nearly half the flowering heads infested with Ustilago receptaculorum, but for the past two or three years, although we have sought it industriously, not a single specimen could be found.

Subgleba occupying nearly half the peridium, cup-shaped above and for a long time persistent; the mass of spores and capillitium compact, farinaceous greenish-yellow or olivaceous, becoming pale to dark-brown; the threads are very much branched, the primary branches two or three times as thick as the spores, very brittle, soon breaking up into fragments.

The most important instance of its application is in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where 325 acres receive the sewage of nearly half the town, and have been converted from barren sand into land which yields from £20 to £30 per acre.

In the course of the next two days, all the accused were brought before the magistrates, when twenty-nine, or nearly half the number, were discharged, the remainder being fined or sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.

The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin.

The story seems oversold (by the SEC and by the NYT ): The paper reports that nearly half the violations resulted from complications relating to the merger that created the firm, and no examples are given of firm audits that were in any way rendered dubious by prima facie investment conflicts.

The original Inquirer editorial unwittingly invited such smears by linking its Norplant proposal to race--specifically, to a report that nearly half the nation's black children are living in poverty.

And yet, Morton actually owns nearly half the American salt market, even though its salt is more expensive--at least a few pennies more--than other brands.

In 1950, the United States was responsible for nearly half the gross world product.

Having lost nearly half the season to a labor standoff, the NBA is compressing the trading and signing period in order to begin the season quickly.

But nearly half the execs say they still attend too many meetings.

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