Nearly 75 % of Estonia's air pollution was reported to come from two oil shale-based thermal power stations operating near Narva.

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

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 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 synchronized with the rotation of the planet, its two phototelevision cameras could be commanded to take 12 pictures during each close approach.

Nearly two centuries ago, Ngubengcuka ( d. 1832 ), who ruled as the Inkosi Enkhulu of the Thembu people, married and subsequently left a son named Mandela, who became Nelson's grandfather and the source of his surname.

Nearly two thirds of those entering upper secondary education enter the vocational education and training system.

Nearly all individuals who are identified as Pequot live in the two above-named communities.

Nearly two thousand textual variations from the Masoretic text agree with the Septuagint and some are shared with the Latin Vulgate.

Nearly every clue has two non-overlapping parts to it: one part that provides an unmodified but often indirect definition for the word or phrase, and a second part that includes the wordplay involved.

Nearly two hundred manuscripts of the “ Histories ” have survived.

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

Nearly two dozen participants, ranging from a local furniture maker to a former Chief of Police, borrowed camcorders from MPT and compiled more than 20 hours of footage to answer the question, what makes your community special?

Nearly 15, 000 Choctaw left their traditional homeland over the next two years.

Nearly two hundred buildings in the borough qualified as contributing properties.

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 half a century before in 1875, two other schools for African Americans were organized.

Nearly all DJ mixers have two or more phono inputs, together with two or more one-volt line inputs that also use RCA connectors.

.... Nearly all his battalions were compelled to lay down their arms, and two other divisions of infantry shared their fate.

Nearly all buildings in the central areas of Napier and Hastings were levelled ( The Dominion noted that " Napier as a town has been wiped off the map ") and the death toll included 161 people in Napier, 93 in Hastings, and two in Wairoa.

Nearly two hundred young boys and girls perform various characters in ' Tharakayano ', the first ever Sri-Lankan Passion play in Ballet style.

Nearly two years later, a similar system, using a similar method of adaptive filtering, appeared as a feature of Microsoft Office Outlook.

* Nearly four centuries later Giorgio Vasari wrote: " Guglielmo, according to what is being said, in year 1174 with Bonanno as sculptor, laid the foundations of the belltower of the cathedral in Pisa.

Nearly extinct by the 18th and 19th centuries, the Hutterites found a new home in North America.

Nearly every city and town has its own festival, some that date back several centuries.

Nearly all of both her maternal and paternal forebears had arrived in the Virginia Colony during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Nearly two centuries after Theophylactus, the same episode is retold by another Byzantine chronicler, Theophanes Confessor, in his Chronographia ( c. 810 – 814 ).

Nearly two centuries after Plato, Hipparchus established the period of equinox precession, and the term " Great Year " also came to be applied to the period of that precession.

" 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 three centuries later, it was still studied at Padua, the last home of Averroism, and Lucilio Vanini spoke of him with great veneration.

Nearly three centuries later, the sorceress Cassana found details of Finder's experiments and tracked him down in the Citadel.

Nearly 2 centuries back, Maharajah Abhay Singh of Jodhpur required some woods for the construction of his new palace.

Nearly two centuries later, the Scottish had their revenge on North Cowton, raiding it regularly in the early 14th century and burning it to the ground in 1318.

Nearly two centuries later, these anti-arms laws continue to be strictly enforced, resulting in a society relatively free from firearms-related criminal offences.

Nearly ubiquitous to the region in the early 19th century, vast herds were often observed at the time and, indeed, they and their eggs had for centuries provided the Puelches and the area's other indigenous peoples with much of their protein needs.

Nearly five decades later the battle was among the actions recognised by a clasp attached to the Naval General Service Medal, awarded upon application to all British participants still living in 1847.

Nearly a century later, the English were to invade in earnest, taking Guantánamo Bay in 1741 during the War of Jenkins ' Ear with Spain.

Nearly a month later, producer Tomoyuki Tanaka called in screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa to revise the script to add Godzilla and Gigan.

Nearly a century later in the 1230s invading Norse forces took Rothesay Castle, hacking through the walls with their axes.

Nearly all later ornithological works were inspired by his artistry and high standards.

Nearly three months later, on 12 September, a right thigh was discovered in the peat on the bucket of a digger.

During the later periods of Roman history, sun worship gained in importance and ultimately led to what has been called a “ solar monotheism .” Nearly all the gods of the period were possessed of solar qualities.

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

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

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

Nearly 17, 000 Choctaws made the move to what would be called Indian Territory and then later Oklahoma.

Many of these early settlers were Métis, a mixture of native and naturlized North Americans, Nearly twenty years later, in 1878, the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad line finally reached St. Vincent and opened up the area to settlement.

Nearly a decade later, money woes forced Rindge to sell the land, and the Colony was born.

Nearly 300 years later, D ' Iberville officially became a city in 1988.

Nearly 100 years later the railroad came through and the community had its first name — Stallings ’ Station, since the depot for the North Carolina Railroad was in the home of Mrs. Sarah Stallings.

Nearly a century later, in the 1970s, Maumee experienced an economic renaissance.

Nearly 1 year later, he died at the age of 57.

Nearly a decade later he recorded At Shelly's Manne-Hole ( 1968 ), an exciting live trio session with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, in which four of the compositions were improvised on the spot.