But practice and undivided concentration make nearly perfect.

But if it looks very nearly perfect, but not quite, then we are repulsed.

I thought things were nearly perfect but out of the blue she said it wasn't working for her and ended it.

When the potatoes and turnips are nearly perfect, carve the beef.

Indeed, if you plot turnout at local elections against the portion of money raised locally, you find the correlation to be nearly perfect.

Players and coaches are nearly unanimous, wherever they come from.

The poll had been nearly unanimous, at 95 per cent or more, from the start of the year.

There was a nearly unanimous answer.

It would also have to be nearly unanimous.

The three stars have earned nearly unanimous raves for their work, with particular attention paid to their singing.

So many games, jump-rope songs, hand-clapping rhymes, tug-of-war, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, turn out to be nearly universal.

Unlike wind turbines, which have converged on a nearly universal design, tidal turbines still come in many shapes and sizes.

In 1982, to nearly universal disbelief, he declared that the active agent in all these diseases was a protein, which he called a prion.

The film has received nearly universal critical acclaim.

There are, however, a few requirements that are nearly universal.

Luckily, the pilot released decoy flares, and after a fast and nearly vertical descent, we landed safely.

Sycamore trees look very brisk, with nearly vertical twigs, and long, pointed green buds in which pink inner bud scales are now showing.

A tricky dogleg featuring lots of water and sand lopes off to the right, made all the more perilous by the nearly vertical drop to the left.

Yet, in order to keep the acquisition of farming land to a minimum, the cuttings for the road were made with nearly vertical banks in some places.

The dorsal fins have nearly vertical trailing margins, with the first originating over the pectoral fin rear tips.