Nearly 18 per cent of West Berlin's 2,200,000 residents are sixty-five or older, only 12.8 per cent are under fifteen.

Nearly fifteen years after disbanding, three members of Slint — Brian McMahan, David Pajo, and Britt Walford — reunited to curate the 2005 All Tomorrow's Parties ( ATP ) music festival in Camber Sands, England.

Nearly all of the older weirs and most of the current ones once had associated mills, fifteen of which are mentioned in the Domesday book, but very few of these survive.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

Nearly all calendar systems group consecutive days into " months " and also into " years ".

Nearly forty years were to pass before a comparably ambitious ruler appeared on the Russian throne.

Nearly five years had passed since they had last seen each other.

Nearly all of them won national elections in their respective countries at least once in the past 15 years.

Nearly two years later ( in December 1046 ), the Council of Sutri deprived him of his bishopric and priesthood and ordered him sent to a monastery.

Nearly a thousand years elapsed, from the foundation of the city of Rome in 753 BC to the fall of the Roman Empire or the beginning of the Middle Ages.

Nearly half of the handwritten books are from the Middle Ages and 400 are over 1000 years old.

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.

The Ekumen stories tell of the efforts to re-establish a civilization on a galactic scale through NAFAL ( Nearly As Fast As Light ) interstellar travel taking years to travel between stars, although only weeks or months from the viewpoint of the traveler, because of time dilation, and through instantaneous interstellar communication using the ansible.

Nearly twenty years later, Yeats recalled the night with Gonne in his poem " A Man Young and Old ":

Nearly every known wild population of B. brownii shows some signs of dieback infection, which could possibly wipe it out within years.

Nearly the entire population of Lucayans ( almost 40, 000 people total ) were deported over the next 30 years.

Nearly all of those leaving compulsory schooling immediately enter upper secondary schools, and most complete their upper secondary education in three years.

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 2500 years ago, Sophocles wrote, " Do nothing secretly ; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Nearly forty years after the conquest of Peru began with the execution of Atahualpa, the conquest ended with the execution of his nephew.

Nearly 100 years later the first colonization began as Richfield, Utah was established within the present day county boundaries.

Nearly 22. 90 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 10. 20 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly 25. 50 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 11. 90 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly 25. 6 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 11. 4 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly 27. 80 % of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 60 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly 24. 30 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 10. 50 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Nearly 28. 70 % of all households were made up of individuals, and 9. 90 % had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

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 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.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

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 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 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 '.

Nearly 850, 000 spectators watched the Tests, which helped lift public spirits after the war.

Nearly 18 years after its creation, Kimble County was officially organized on January 3, 1876.

Nearly a decade after stricter state control following the Soviet invasion suppressing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( including the execution of leader Imre Nagy ), János Kádár introduced Goulash Communism which led to a less repressive era.

Nearly eighteen months after Robert Maxwell bought the Mirror ( on 12 July 1984 ), Pilger was sacked by Richard Stott, the newspaper's editor, on 31 December 1985.

Nearly one year after the fire, the official inquiry determined the cause was the failure, overheating and ignition of one of the electric heaters installed in the conductor's compartments that were not designed for use in a moving vehicle.

Nearly everything else in town was named after the Phillips Petroleum company or its founder ".

Nearly forgotten by historians almost a century after his death, Smith has been rediscovered as an American hero who was the first white man to travel overland from the Salt Lake frontier, the Colorado River, the Mojave Desert, and finally into California.

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.

Nearly 4 years later, after just 13 first class matches, he made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan cricket team against Pakistan at Kandy in August 1994.

Nearly two years after the wedding, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, and the future Marquise de la Ferté Imbault.

Nearly a week after the show debuted, Leo Guild ( who has created numerous radio and television shows, books, and newspaper columns ) filed a $ 2 million lawsuit against NBC for stealing his Wizard title, which had been used as a newspaper column during the late 1940s.