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

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 centuries later it was converted into a state prison under Napoleon Bonaparte.

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 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 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.