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

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 half of the island has never been cleared of vegetation, and a quarter of it is conserved in National Parks, Conservation Parks, and five Wilderness Protection Areas.

Nearly the entire first half of the book is based on Chomsky's five 1988 Massey Lectures on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio from November 1988 and extends his and Edward S. Herman's propaganda model to a variety of new situations.

Nearly all reviews of the 2006 Director's Cut have been positive, including a four-star review in the British magazine Total Film ( five star being the publication's highest rating ) and a perfect ten out of ten from IGN DVD.

Nearly all television is owned by five companies: the federally-owned Société Radio-Canada, Groupe TVA, Astral Media, Remstar, and the provincially-owned Société de télédiffusion du Québec.

Nearly one household in five has income exceeding $ 100, 000, with a home ownership rate of 70 %.

Nearly 80 years later, on 8 October 2009, the Senate voted to make the five the first " honorary senators ".

Nearly half the arrests occurred at just five stations: Anacostia, Fort Totten, Gallery Place – Chinatown, L ' Enfant Plaza, and Minnesota Avenue — four of them on the Green Line.

Nearly five years before Bure made his NHL debut with the Vancouver Canucks in 1991 at the Pacific Coliseum, he played his first game at his future home rink as part of the tour.

Nearly half the arrests occurred at just five stations: Anacostia, Fort Totten, Gallery Place-Chinatown, L ' Enfant Plaza, and Minnesota Avenue.

Nearly five years later, Cohen would team with Matt Groening to develop Futurama, where he would serve as writer or co-writer of six episodes and executive producer and head writer of the series ' entire run.

Nearly five years of his term were served in solitary confinement.

Nearly all these were at length allowed back to work, six remained terminated for about a week, but five ( known as the " Cleveland Five " or " Freightliner Five ") remain terminated.

Nearly five hundred men worked on the site, building a fort that covered nearly six acres and a harbour for communication.

Nearly five years later, during the Air Force's transition to the objective wing structure, the Air Force inactivated the 513th ACCW on 31 January 1992.

Nearly 18 million people ride on the system a year, compared with five million on National Express Group's Midland Metro which has a higher catchment area, serving Birmingham the second most populated city in England, and stretching as far as Wolverhampton.

" Nearly all Cubans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.

Nearly every Goan Christian can trace ancestral roots to Hindu ancestors about five centuries ago.

Nearly 50 years later, Henry VIII established the Regius Professorships at both universities, this time in five subjects: divinity, civil law, Hebrew, Greek, and physic — the last of those corresponding to what we now know as medicine and basic sciences.

Nearly five years after leaving office at the age of fifty-nine, Sigler and three passengers were killed when the plane he was piloting on a foggy night, collided with a television broadcast tower ( WBCK-TV ) near Augusta, Michigan.

Nearly one million Frenchmen were thus forced to spend the next five years in prisoner of war camps ( about a third of the initial 1. 5 million prisoners taken were released or paroled by the Germans before the war ended ).

Nearly five months after his 93rd birthday, Joseph H. Lewis died at his home in Los Angeles County's seaside community of Marina del Rey.

Nearly two decades later, in 1886, Clemens Winkler found the new element along with silver and sulfur, in a rare mineral called argyrodite.

Nearly three decades later, at the suggestion of Desnos ' widow, Miró set out to illustrate the poet's manuscript.

Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer ( ed.

Nearly two decades later, shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Palpatine found the continued existence of open political dissent a hindrance to his total control, and disbanded the Imperial Senate — sweeping away the last remnants of the Galactic Republic.

Nearly two decades after Musial retired, baseball statistician Bill James and the sabermetrics movement began providing new ways of comparing players across baseball history.

Nearly four decades after her death, she became the namesake of a World War II Liberty ship, the SS Mary Livermore.

Nearly three decades later, a more serious attempt at " invisibility " was tried with the Horten Ho 229 flying wing fighter-bomber, developed in Germany during the last years of World War II.

Nearly three decades later, at the suggestion of Desnos ' widow, Miró set out to illustrate the poet's manuscript.

Nearly 2 decades later, she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2011.

Nearly two decades after Sure of You, Maupin resumed the series with the release of the novel Michael Tolliver Lives.

Nearly four decades later, J. C. Penney remains a client.

Jane Lamacraft reassessed the film for Sight and Sound ' Forgotten pleasures of the multiplex ' feature in 2010, writing " Nearly three decades on, Bacon's vest-clad set-piece dance in a flour mill looks cheesily 1980s, but the rest of Ross's drama wears its age well, real song-and-dance joy for the pre-Glee generation.

Nearly seven decades later, Lois Hole, who served as lieutenant governor from 2000 until her death in 2005, publicly stated that she wished to discuss with her premier, Ralph Klein, the proposed Bill 11, which was meant to allow private health care to compete with the public health care system.

Nearly two decades later, Jacobs would write in her fictionalized autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which she began composing while working for the Willis family, that she " was convinced that ... Nathaniel Parker Willis was proslavery ".

Nearly three decades later, As the World Turns writers resurrected remnants of Lisa's Our Private World storyline, when a previously-unmentioned son whom Lisa had while in Chicago ( presumably during the period between the end of Our Private World and Fulton's return to As the World Turns in early 1966 ) resurfaced and made contact with her.

Nearly three decades of Samoan involvement in street dance and rap music has influenced the scene in other cities such as Wellington.

Nearly two decades later it has increased that figure to nearly 1, 000 people.

Nearly five thousand people were on hand to hear former President Bill Clinton honor former Senator George McGovern and his wife Eleanor McGovern for their decades of public service and leadership.

Nearly two decades later, on his deathbed, Professor Akitsu tells his son, Masaki Akitsu, that Zeorymer must not awaken.

Nearly four decades ago, Carl W. Hirschmann bought the former Globe Air hangars in Basel, Switzerland to establish Jet Aviation as the first maintenance facility for business aircraft in Europe.

Nearly two decades later, one of India's greatest film directors, Mrinal Sen alleged that Smita Patil had died due to gross medical negligence.