#nearly

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#america #decades #demand #domestic #expanded

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#cracked #despotism #nearly #up

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal. ↗

— Cecile Richards

#ago #birth #birth control #control #founded

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#been #feel #my own #nearly #own

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#community #nearly #percent #pretty #religious

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. ↗

— Neil Innes

#i #i remember #nearly #one day #records

When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#i #kind #mistress #nearly #old

When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#come #condemned #discussion #found #held