He is close to sixty.

He is near forty.

He is nearly 40.

And I do a painting every 20 or 25 years. This is the last one.

The war lasted nearly ten years.

Nevertheless, it has remained at a standstill for almost a decade.

We have experienced many changes over the last decade.

Hans Rosling The good news of the decade?

The cumulative length of her detention now approaches ten years.

Nuna, it has been already 10 years that I haven't seen you.

Some of the changes which began in earlier decades have become even more apparent in recent years.

21. The total dollar value of building permits in 1996 dropped nearly 23 per cent to its lowest level in nearly a decade.

So here's the problem that I've been interested in in the last decade or so.

In the past 10 years, five million people have died due to a war in the east.

ACTIONS INITIATIVES FOR THE ELIMINATION OF STEREOTYPES During the current school year, K.E.TH.I.

The average number of years of education for children and young people of both sexes is very similar.

A recent study has revealed that we will need to augment our electricity generation nearly ten fold in the next four to five decades.

Recent technologies like the PC, the web, cell phones were under a decade.

Finally got to see him after 10 months of waiting almost a year.

Levels of malnutrition have been steadily declining over the past 30 years.

For nearly three decades, the Committee had fulfilled its mandate in an effective and responsible manner.

At current growth rates, this number would reach 2 billion by 2025.

It is grateful to it for having given shelter to several hundreds of thousands of refugees in recent years.

Seventeen and nearly ten feet tall!

During the past decade, his country had made notable progress towards achieving the three goals of the United Nations Decade for Women.

The birth rate has declined from 37.1 to 24.2 births per 1,000 inhabitants in the past two decades (1970 1992).

UNRWA entered the fifty sixth year of its operations in 2005.

When I first met her, she was nearly 30 years old.

In the past 30 years, Panama has considerably improved its literacy rates.

It's just that what I mean... I didn't think so.

The power generated would meet the demand of nearly 750,000 households, and save 250,000 tonnes of coal.

Xi Jinping said that the 19th National Congress held in October this year is of great strategic significance to China.

Pearl Jam, 96 albums released in the last two years.

But in the last few decades that has totally changed.

The nature of Dutch emancipation policy has changed in recent decades.

In Sri Lanka, a decades long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

Over the last ten years, thousands of young Ukrainians had been victims of the traffic in persons.

23. Mortality has been falling in recent decades between 1970 and 1990 the frequency of deaths declined from 13.5 to 8.2 per 1,000 inhabitants.

Because before 1980, there were much fewer people born than there were during the last 30 years.

But the problem is that we are coming out of a decade where we had a fear of touching it.

In 2002 we had about 50 percent of the people jobless there.

37. Nearly half a million visitors take the Department s guided tour of Headquarters each year, and the numbers are rising.

As recently at last decade, most of the media that was available for public consumption was produced by professionals.

I read that Mars is near Earth now. It happens every 20 years, they say.

1. During 1985 1997, primary commodity prices experienced one of the least favourable trends in recent decades.