#nearly

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait. ↗

— Benny Anderson

#content #engaged #get #get married #got

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#bad #because #before #could #effort

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#company #complaint #court #decades #decision

In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer. ↗

— Gary Miller

#barrels #day #demand #gasoline #grow

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent. ↗

— John Prescott

#billion #buy #desperately #discount #given

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. ↗

— Christina Romer

#estimates #gdp #highly #increase #nearly

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#economist #effect #factors #growth #however

Summer nearly does me in every year. It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#does #every #go #hot #light