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Nearly all of the U. S. naval operations of the twentieth century were originally designed and gamed at the NWC.
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Nearly a century later, during another period of historically low water, the remains of the ship were discovered.
Nearly a century after Dominic's birth, a local author asserted that Dominic's father was " vir venerabilis et dives in populo suo " (" an honoured and wealthy man in his village ").
Nearly all scholars agree that regardless of how one interprets the mission of Jesus, that he must be understood in context as a 1st century Palestinian Jew.
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Nearly a century of use had taken its toll.
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Nearly and after
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Nearly 700 oil wells were set ablaze by the retreating Iraqi army and the fires were not fully extinguished until November 6, 1991, eight months after the end of the war.
Nearly all these efforts were rejected, but Mississippi and Arkansas did put anti-evolution laws on the books after the Scopes trial that would outlive the Butler Act.
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Nearly half of all Roman legions had to be pulled together to end the revolt, which was triggered by neglect, endemic food shortages ( since 22 BCE, following a political crisis in 23 BCE and riots in 22, 21 and 19 BCE, ended after 8 CE ), high taxes and harsh behavior of the tax collectors.
Nearly everything she does is with the intention of securing a stable position for herself, or herself and her husband after she and Rawdon are married.
Nearly forty years after the conquest of Peru began with the execution of Atahualpa, the conquest ended with the execution of his nephew.
Nearly the entire German population was expelled and deported soon after 1945.
" Nearly a decade after George W. Bush said " misunderestimated " in a speech, Philip Hensher called the term one of his " most memorable additions to the language, and an incidentally expressive one: it may be that we rather needed a word for ' to underestimate by mistake '.
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Nearly everything else in town was named after the Phillips Petroleum company or its founder ".
Nearly all of the world's isolated islands could furnish similar examples of extinctions occurring shortly after the arrival of Homo sapiens, though most of these islands, such as the Hawaiian Islands, never had terrestrial megafauna, so their extinct fauna were smaller.
Nearly 250 years later in 1998, illegally salvaged coins from Clive's treasure chest were offered for sale, and in 2002 a portion of the coins were given to the South African government after protracted legal wrangling.
Nearly ten years after the game's initial release, Nintendo, with licensing from SNK, re-released Crystalis for the Game Boy Color on June 26, 2000.
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Nearly two years after the wedding, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, and the future Marquise de la Ferté Imbault.
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