By the year 2000, the number of visitors had risen to 3 million, and the hotels had been booked to nearly 98 of their capacity.

I booked a seat.

Mennad booked an appointment.

The conference venue had been chosen, the meeting rooms booked and a transport system organized.

In the morning I went to the main train station and booked a ticket to Germany.

Sanctions have rattled the North Korean leadership, but not nearly enough to compel them to surrender fully the nuclear program, which is their ultimate guarantee of security.

Travel booked online continues to grow at a more rapid pace than offline travel, beyond the purchase of airline tickets and including vacation packages and cruises.

So, I booked myself a flight to Boston in '95, 19 years old and definitely the dark horse candidate at this race. I'd never done it before.

Layla nearly died.

It's nearly three o'clock.

Hotel accommodation can be booked online at the official Thai website for the Congress (http www.11uncongress.org participation accommodation.htm), which provides a list of recommended hotels and information about their location.

Thus, the Ministry of Justice had forwarded to Icelandair a list of Falun Gong members who had booked flights to Iceland but could be expected to be denied entry into the country.

United Nations system agencies at present provide nearly 28,000 tons of food per month to nearly 2 million people.

In the last 20 years, this gap has been eight percentage points for China, compared to roughly four percentage points on average for emerging economies and nearly zero for most developed economies, where interest rates are fully liberalized.

He was stopped and nearly arrested.

Nearly all Japanese have dark hair.

As if responding to a disaster reporting assignment, I hastily threw my notebook, phone and wallet into my bag and ran out to catch the taxi I d booked online a few minutes before.

Shi a nationalism has followed Persian chauvinism as a rallying point, but neither has succeeded fully in bolstering Iran s political institutions and securing the allegiance of its young population, nearly two thirds of which is under the age of 30.

She was nearly hit by a bicycle.

Fortunately, the campaign season is nearly over.

The British have nearly the opposite perspective.

Olivier is nearly worried by the craze

I was nearly hit by a car.

In Greece, there are nearly 1000 birds.

Germany s exports exceeded its imports by nearly 200 billion in the past twelve months, a surplus equivalent to nearly 6 of GDP.

Nearly 31 years ago, on 25th December 1974, a powerful earthquake flattened towns along the Karakorum Highway and killed nearly 10,000 people.

The curfew has ended but the crackdown continues. More than 450 people have been booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), a law under which a person can be detained without trial for six months.

The two spars were nearly equal in length, and both were nearly as long or longer than the total length of the body.

Although other countries have points extending north, virtually all of Finland is north of 60 degrees north latitude nearly a quarter of the land area and fully one third of the latitudinal extent of the country lie north of the Arctic Circle.

It's nearly impossible to break a Coke bottle.

A.J. Jacobs How healthy living nearly killed me

Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.

Nearly a thousand people participated in the demonstration.

I was nearly run over by a truck.

I was nearly run over by a truck.

In other words, holding duration was nearly halved.

He probably didn t put it nearly strongly enough.

Yet both transitions still took nearly a decade.

India s is growing at nearly the same rate.

Each year, nearly nine million children die of conditions that could be prevented or treated, and nearly 400,000 women die because of complications during pregnancy.

I haven't given a talk in nearly four months.

Within two generations human literacy will be nearly universal.

Nearly 20 years later, this patience has worn thin.

Today, nearly 80 of Americans live in urban areas.

Nearly all oil pipelines in the region head west.