Similar words: near and dear, bearer, shearer, near, pallbearer, on earth, nearest, near to. Meaning: [nɪr /nɪə] adv. (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance.
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121. When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark.
122. The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion.
123. The uncertain outlook for consumer spending has encouraged City analysts to trim their profit forecasts from around £11m to nearer £10m.
124. Jinny found some nearer the top, in the open, where she could stand and peer down at the cottage.
125. Note the perspective of clouds and colour in the sky; how the clouds recede in distance nearer to the horizon.
126. She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer.
127. She would have liked to be nearer to the panel, but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit.
128. Somervillians in the area will be hearing more nearer the time.
129. The helicopter had vanished and the dinghy was much nearer the pilot, who appeared not to be moving.
130. As they came nearer I approached them, before the guard had time to prevent me.
131. The tide was setting in and the thing came nearer and nearer until she knew it was a dead body.
132. What is more improbable is that the Genetic Supermarket, with its emphasis upon individual choice,[http://sentencedict.com/nearer.html] will bring this possibility nearer.
133. The World Championships crept gradually nearer, and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me.
134. As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.
135. Children could go on for ever finding out information about dinosaurs and be no nearer satisfying this vague purpose.
136. His eyes flicked to the man from time to time, making sure he came no nearer.
137. This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.
138. I desperately attempted to draw my oar nearer to me, but in doing so created an immediate and irretrievable imbalance.
139. As the enemy approach still nearer, shells burst upon their compact masses.
140. The document also includes proposals to bring vocational qualifications nearer to the A-level gold standard.
141. It looked as if the caracara would polish off the duck; but our boat drifting nearer made it nervous.
142. But Edwards, who was prepared to accept £10 million from Knighton[sentencedict.com], is believed to want nearer £30 million now.
143. It made sense for Sam to live nearer the college.
144. We changed our course when we got nearer, and went Over for a look-see.
145. The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.
146. Instead, they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota.
147. Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt.
148. Fourteen years after the first Berlin crisis the world seemed no nearer to a relaxation in Cold War tensions.
149. Slowly, he moved nearer to me, but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground.
150. As he drew nearer, Jessamy felt a distinct tremor run right through her nervous system.
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