Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

Nearly 14 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 are employed, many in poor conditions and for negligible pay.

Nearly 32 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 14. 1 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly another year would pass before the other foreign parties to the conflict signed treaties on 3 September 1783, with that being ratified by Congress on January 14, 1784, and formally ending the American Revolutionary War.

Nearly 14 million Muslim refugees ( Muhajirs ) escaped from communal riots in various parts of India and settled in Sindh after the creation of Pakistan, populating mostly urban centers of the province.

Nearly 800 students participate in the university's 31 athletic teams ( 17 female teams and 14 male teams ) along with more than 500 students who participate in 23 Club Sports.

Nearly every 3 years the well forms 14 small pools of water of different temperatures about 3 ft apart.

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

Nearly 100 % of the country's 82. 5 million ( 2012 est.

Nearly 25 % of all private homes in the country were either destroyed or badly damaged, and 1. 5 million persons were left without housing.

Nearly 2 million ethnic Koreans, especially in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China's Jilin Province, have interacted with South Koreans.

Nearly 100 million Americans watched The Day After on its first broadcast, a record audience for a made-for-TV movie.

Nearly one million Yum !, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A & W All American Food employees, franchisees and their families volunteered close to 4 million hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide, while helping to raise $ 16 million throughout the World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the world.

Nearly 12 million cosmetic procedures were performed in 2007, with the five most common surgeries being breast augmentation, liposuction, nasal surgery, eyelid surgery and abdominoplasty.

Nearly 20 million persons in Europe fled their homes, were expelled, transferred or exchanged during the process of sorting out ethnic groups between 1944 and 1951.

Nearly 1 million Portuguese or persons of Portuguese descent left these former colonies as refugees.

Nearly 10 million people attended the fair.

Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the World War I permanently disabled by injury or disease.

Nearly 70 % of survey respondents indicated public companies with revenues under $ 251 million should be exempt from SOX Section 404.

Nearly 3 million people of German-descent live in Rio Grande do Sul state, and 500 000 speak or understand the German language.

Nearly one million visitors take advantage of the marina, its associated beaches and other recreational facilities every summer, including some notable Chicago athletes.

Nearly two million people spectated the games, which were the first to have the Olympic truce in effect.

Nearly twenty-five million blocks and bricks were manufactured each year to keep up with the high demand.

Nearly two million visitors a year come to Beaufort and the Sea Islands of northern Beaufort County, with spring and fall seasons being peak times.

Nearly seven hours into the concert in London, Bob Geldof enquired how much money had been raised ; he was told £ 1. 2 million.

Nearly six million casualties had been accrued by January 1917.

Nearly 1. 4 million SHGs comprising approximately 20 million women now borrow from banks, which makes the Indian SHG-Bank Linkage model the largest microfinance program in the world.

Nearly all the early immigrants were young males with low educational levels from six districts in the Guangdong province.

Nearly 8 million immigrants came to the United States from 2000 to 2005 – more than in any other five-year period in the nation's history.

Nearly half of these immigrants left Palestine by the time World War I started.

Nearly 2800 Palatine German emigrants were transported to New York by Queen Anne's government in ten ships in 1710, the largest single group of immigrants before the Revolutionary War.

Nearly 90 percent of the new immigrants settled in New Orleans.

Nearly all duels and battles began with an exchange of arrowfire, before single combat was entered, with sword and dagger.

Nearly 185 years into its existence, the Nederlandsche Bank has entered a new phase.

Nearly a century earlier, Mongols had entered Europe itself in the Mongol invasion of Europe.

Nearly 300 projects from around the world entered the competition in 2008-09.

Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become sovereign states by 1990, including all of the former United Nations Trust Territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate ).

Nearly the entire VA hospital system in the United States, the Indian Health Service, and major parts of the Department of Defense CHCS hospital system use MUMPS databases for clinical data tracking.

Nearly every minivan sold in the United States belongs to this segment, so they are simply called minivans there.

Nearly fifty years later, the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, allowing the vice president to assume the presidency any time the president was rendered incapable of carrying out the duties of the office.

Nearly half a century later, after the United States Army had built Fort Laramie without permission on Lakota land, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was negotiated to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail.

Nearly 20 years later, in the 1990s, a major international debate ensued over whether Hmong refugees remaining in Thailand should be forcibly repatriated to Laos, where they were still subject to persecution, or should be allowed to emigrate to the United States and other Western nations.

Nearly 3, 500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

Nearly concurrently, the United States Congress had recommended in August 1861 that armored ships be built for the American Navy.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of. Nearly all of it is land.

Nearly every tree species found in the northeastern United States can be found in the forests near Baldwinsville.

" Nearly Lost You " peaked at No. 5 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 50 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's first single to chart outside the United States.

Nearly 15, 000 had watched their opening game against Sheffield United, but during the second half of the season they were struggling to attract half that figure.

Nearly 95 % of the membership is in the United States.

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, author Bill Bryson notes that following his criticism of the lead industry he was refused contracts with many research organizations, including the supposedly neutral United States Public Health Service.

Nearly 84 % of American college students need financial aid to help pay for the rising tuition prices that are taking place all across the United States.

Nearly 17, 000 Witness volunteers repaired more than 5, 600 homes and 90 Kingdom Halls during their extended relief effort in the United States ' Gulf Coast region.

Nearly 2. 5 times larger than the landmass of the United States, it was a continental-sized country only slightly smaller than the whole of North America, though its population density, at 13 people per square kilometer was just two-thirds that of South America at 20, and only a little more than the 12. 8 of Saudi Arabia.

Nearly all interns working in the United States must be paid, and at least the minimum wage, for their work in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Nearly 228, 000 units were sold during the four-year run of the first-generation model, most of them in the United States.

Nearly all the existing forces were under the 4, 000 limit, with only the Metropolitan Police, Greater Manchester Police, Merseyside Police, Northumbria Police, Thames Valley Police, West Midlands Police and West Yorkshire Police over the limit-see Table of police forces in the United Kingdom for a full list.

Nearly 51190 new diagnoses and 12890 deaths reported in the United States in 2007.

Nearly one hundred years later a stricter version of this rule was incorporated into the Constitution of the United States.