Meanings of number nearly in English

That number nearly halved by the end of the second quarter.

The Christian people number nearly three hundred millions and the Muhammadans about the same.

The Christian people number nearly three hundred millions and the Muslims about the same.

On the surface, such an eye-popping number nearly sounds reasonable.

The apartments number nearly one hundred, and were generally rectangular.

Nevertheless they did not number nearly so large a force as that under King Harald.

Mosques and shrines in Cairo number nearly 500.

The book contained two hundred and thirty-five selections and of this number nearly one-half appeared in all subsequent revisions.

Those actually engaged in and more remotely connected with this kind of work number nearly one-half of our population.

I have followed in his footsteps, expanding the business, until now my clerks and assistants number nearly a dozen.

The number nearly doubled to 37 in 2015 and rose again to 47 in 2016.

The Mahommedans, who number nearly eight-ninths of the population, are not, however, ''citizens'' but ''subjects,'' and consequently have not the vote.

Except for the city dwellers, the inhabitants of Laos, who number nearly 3 million, are hardly aware of the nation's three contending elements.

Charles A. Newhall of this town is secretary and treasurer of the Nineteenth Regiment association, whose survivors still number nearly one hundred members.

I think your method will result in driving and compacting together, in solid mass, persons who will soon number nearly or quite fifty per cent.

The Kirghiz are divided into three hordes, the greater, the lesser, and the middle, and number nearly four hundred thousand "tents," or two million souls.