1. The nearer the bone the sweeter the flesh. 

2. The nearer to church, the farther from God. 

3. We moved our chairs a little nearer.

4. She moved nearer, her long silk skirt rustling around her.

5. as deadlines get nearer.

6. 'Don't forget the camera.' 'Remind me about it nearer the time.'

7. She took a step nearer to the barrier.

8. I'm warning you - don't come any nearer !

9. Pull your chair nearer the table.

10. He beckoned me to come nearer.

11. He made no move to come any nearer.

12. I'll think about it nearer the time .

12. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

13. Pull your chair up to/nearer to the table.

14. Those shops are nearer/the nearest.

15. He looked nearer fifty than forty.

16. It came nearer and nearer.

17. Often her feelings were nearer hatred than love.

18. The guide motioned to me to come nearer.

19. I'll tell you nearer the day.

20. Police are still no nearer to solving the crime.

21. My exams are getting nearer.

22. He drew his chair nearer the fire.

23. The children's excitement is mounting as Christmas gets nearer.

24. They moved house to be nearer the school.

25. She took a step nearer.

26. As ovulation gets nearer, oestrogen levels rise.

27. Profits fell from $11 million to nearer $8 million.

28. We are no nearer an agreement than we were six months ago.

29. Observers reckon the Bank of England will hold fire until nearer the Budget.

30. We can meet at the pub or in the restaurant, whichever's nearer for you.

1. We moved our chairs a little nearer.

2. She moved nearer, her long silk skirt rustling around her.

3. 'Don't forget the camera.' 'Remind me about it nearer the time.'

4. He looked on in horrified fascination as the ship drew nearer to the rocks.

31. They're asking £60 000 for their flat, but the market price is nearer £55 000.

32. A night's labour brought the sculpture one step nearer perfection.

33. He looked on in horrified fascination as the ship drew nearer to the rocks.

34. As Christmas draws nearer, the shops start to get unbearably crowded.

35. As he drew nearer, his anxiety gave way to relief.

36. I'll give you a ring a bit nearer to Christmas.

37. The threat of war is coming steadily nearer to home.

38. Please remind me again nearer to the time of the interview.

39. We are no nearer agreement now than in the past.

40. They should send us more details nearer the time of the concert.

41. The train rumbled nearer.

42. My head was much nearer the camera than the rest of me so I'm all out of proportion./nearer.html

43. Her birthday was getting nearer and I still hadn't bought her a present.

44. The time for my departure from Japan was drawing nearer every day.

45. Would you mind changing places with me so that I can be nearer the fire?

46. 'The Times' was nearer the mark when it said ...

47. Steel derricks rose to meet our eyes as we drew nearer to the oil fields.

48. The changes will lead to more flexible leases, and leases nearer to 15 years than the present norm of 25 years.

49. As we drew nearer to it the water gradually deepened.

50. This copy is nearer the original than the others I've seen.

51. The nearer of the two barges was perhaps a mile away.

52. Pull the chair nearer to the fire.

53. The pounding of hooves was getting nearer.

54. They won't move until nearer the time, anyway.

55. Nearer home, Northern Ireland only produced renewed deadlock.

56. On 23 April the bombing came much nearer.

57. But he's much nearer than he was.

58. As Christmas drew nearer, sleep became more elusive.

59. He takes a few steps nearer and looks inside.

60. Caught me bending was nearer the mark.

61. He lifted the sheet nearer him.

62. The storm is nearer now too near.

63. The prosecution, by tradition, will sit nearer the jury.

64. The answer was much nearer home.

65. Duvall crept nearer to the glass frontage.

66. The Federals held the position nearer the coveted town.

67. The move brought him nearer, towering over her.

68. Further details will follow nearer the time.

69. He seemed nearer to his old self on Wednesday.

70. Further information will be made available nearer the time.

71. Please watch the local press for details nearer the time.

72. As the wait grew longer and the day nearer,[] expectation filled the air.

73. Each follows the inputs nearer to it and tends to drift away from other nodes.

74. His mouth remained closed in favour of the second mouth conveniently nearer the lungs.

75. On the economic side, there is no doubt that price support must be reduced to nearer world levels.

76. They thus exhibit a strong tendency to drag their feet as doomsday draws nearer.

77. As Linnen's big day drew nearer, aerobics and calorie-counting weren't doing the trick.

78. Yet not one outrage has brought peace an inch nearer.

79. At a news conference today police confirmed that they were still no nearer to solving the case.

80. She took a step nearer, and her ears moved into the forward position.

81. We seem no nearer producing the extra engineers and mathematicians that industry wants-let alone the science teachers we need.

82. Please note it in your diary - detailed notices will, of course, be sent nearer the time.

83. It hung lower in the sky, nearer, more golden, since now she loved and was loved.

84. Nearer to hand there are inviting lake or valley towns like Riva, gateway to the Dolomites.

85. I watched it inching nearer, my mind racing this way and that with the possibilities of what must be done.

86. Near the end of its life the houses nearer Century Street was derelict for some time.

87. Suddenly one of the best-known bandits in existence turns up, parks nearer us, and starts giving unknowing grins.

88. However, we are not that much nearer to a world order dominated by a fair application of the rule of law.

89. It does so using comparatively inexpensive materials, and brings the prospect of obtaining cheap electricity from sunlight a step nearer.

90. Such ideas might be translated into a more secular context nearer home.

91. The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train.

92. If you'd wanted to go to church you could have gone to St Ermin's which is much nearer.

93. Of course, there was great agitation in the spirit world as the Last Days drew nearer.

94. Suddenly he stopped singing and went nearer to the window.

95. The day had been a hummer: a huge leap nearer London.

96. We will write to you nearer the time when we have more details.

97. The wind was moaning more strongly now, and there was a sense of something powerful and irresistible drawing nearer.

98. They stood their ground, mute and attentive, though they came no nearer.

99. Madge drew a little nearer so that she could hear what he was saying.

100. He slides himself and his whole operation nearer to the window.

101. Overseas Mission was not so popular when we realized the heathen were nearer than we thought.

102. Got nearer to a female this evening than I have been for six months.

102. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

103. At least we are much nearer than we were in the era your rose-coloured glasses have alighted upon.

104. Graveney thinks that this figure could be easily be nearer 80 if he were to change his stance.

105. Other environmental pressures could shorten this to nearer the fifty years required by law in the United States.

106. As far as our Elsie is concerned, I confess I am no nearer finding her, not directly anyway.

107. Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28.

108. As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well.

109. This could explain why we see some quasars much nearer than we would normally expect to see them.

110. The boat is drawn nearer and Stubb throws dart after dart into the great creature.

111. His suite would probably cost nearer four weeks' salary than two.

112. Detectives in Scarborough said they were no nearer establishing who he is 48 hours after he died.

113. As it grew gradually nearer, and larger, they soon found it towering over them - a mighty steel fortress.

114. This time, instead of throwing the rope, the Judge moved nearer to Moore, and held the noose open.

115. And as he drew nearer, Cornelius became painfully aware of a curious buzzing sound in his ears.

116. If the nearer accepts it she is branded as a liar at worst and as stubborn at best.

117. As the person gets nearer and nearer to the supermarket so their level of anxiety may be gradually rising in anticipation of difficulty.

118. We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. C.S. Lewis 

119. The footsteps were getting nearer and from the sound of it there were at least a dozen men.

120. He had got away with it, but he was no nearer the Delhi Suite.

121. When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark.

122. The purchaser should identify the need for an independent valuation as early as possible to avoid subsequent delay nearer completion.

123. The uncertain outlook for consumer spending has encouraged City analysts to trim their profit forecasts from around ￡11m to nearer ￡10m.

124. Jinny found some nearer the top, in the open, where she could stand and peer down at the cottage.

125. Note the perspective of clouds and colour in the sky; how the clouds recede in distance nearer to the horizon.

126. She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer.

127. She would have liked to be nearer to the panel, but she doubted her ability to kneel or squat in the spacesuit.

128. Somervillians in the area will be hearing more nearer the time.

129. The helicopter had vanished and the dinghy was much nearer the pilot, who appeared not to be moving.

130. As they came nearer I approached them, before the guard had time to prevent me.

131. The tide was setting in and the thing came nearer and nearer until she knew it was a dead body.

132. What is more improbable is that the Genetic Supermarket, with its emphasis upon individual choice,[http:///nearer.html] will bring this possibility nearer.

133. The World Championships crept gradually nearer, and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me.

134. As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.

135. Children could go on for ever finding out information about dinosaurs and be no nearer satisfying this vague purpose.

136. His eyes flicked to the man from time to time, making sure he came no nearer.

137. This view was so widely attractive that Themistokles himself was constrained to lay more emphasis on a nearer enemy, Aigina.

138. I desperately attempted to draw my oar nearer to me, but in doing so created an immediate and irretrievable imbalance.

139. As the enemy approach still nearer, shells burst upon their compact masses.

140. The document also includes proposals to bring vocational qualifications nearer to the A-level gold standard.

141. It looked as if the caracara would polish off the duck; but our boat drifting nearer made it nervous.

142. But Edwards, who was prepared to accept ￡10 million from Knighton, is believed to want nearer ￡30 million now.

143. It made sense for Sam to live nearer the college.

144. We changed our course when we got nearer, and went Over for a look-see.

145. The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.

146. Instead, they want three anaesthetists who live nearer Llandudno Hospital to be put on a local cover rota.

147. Nearer the sea and along the rivers the soils were all fine silt.

148. Fourteen years after the first Berlin crisis the world seemed no nearer to a relaxation in Cold War tensions.

149. Slowly, he moved nearer to me, but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground.

150. As he drew nearer, Jessamy felt a distinct tremor run right through her nervous system.

151. He was getting nearer to himself, travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees.

152. The gasp of delight is all the stronger for the trick played being nearer to hand.

153. He expanded the area of cut grass to encircle nearer trees - this was his own idea and it pleased him hugely.

154. The hopeless cry came again, louder, nearer, and more terrible than before.

155. When some one comes nearer without invitation, we feel threatened.

156. In the long term, he concedes, Microsoft's net margins will be nearer 15% than 25%.

157. If diplomacy was bringing a settlement no nearer, military events would do so only very slowly.

158. You should contact your Travel Agent for further information nearer your departure date.

159. Most of them were from the barbaric tribes nearer the frozen Hub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.

160. She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight - over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer.

161. Nearer Lexington Avenue, the shops that had invaded the row of red sandstone town houses were beginning to open.

162. She was engaged in dressing a doll for the bazaar which loomed nearer and nearer.

163. I hope you can attend the meeting for which an agenda and papers will be circulated nearer the time.

164. She thought of the baby only as her last blunder in loving, a mistake leading her nearer to this dreadful woe.

165. Nearer the coast, huge areas of land are given over to cultivating tomatoes.

166. Again the howl, nearer, more drawn out, chilling the heart as well as the blood.

167. Sammy needed to recover a little before they could move him to a hospital nearer his home.

168. The sounds came from the left this time and were much nearer.

169. All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.

170. As they moved nearer, Nuadu felt the heat belch out.

171. Nearer at hand he had been involved in the building of forts at Bovisand and Crownhill.

172. But the innocence of first impression gives way as one gradually gets nearer.

173. Farms are fairly small but increase in size nearer the hills.

174. Which of these apparently contradictory views is nearer to the truth?

175. I hear only a distant occasional cowbell and the cheerful nearer transactions of insects.

176. In the meantime, electricity prices were gradually raised to nearer long-run costs.

177. If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath 

178. It is always preferable to have the rig nearer the wave rather than viceversa.

179. His heavy footsteps were thumping nearer and nearer when the root of a tree sent him sprawling.

180. She waited until he grew nearer and then walked up to him, her face alight.

181. The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove.

182. To say he was both administrative and executive officer to the family - and legal adviser - would be nearer the mark.

183. As it drew nearer to Corrie's fifth birthday she began desperately seeking a way in which to keep her in Chertsey.

184. Delia Sutherland did not need to go nearer to know who they were - apparitions of herself, her father.

185. As I got nearer, I saw they were young people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties.

186. The idea of training hard for the jump was soon shelved and the day of reckoning drew nearer.

187. In fact, as the great challenge of the conference drew nearer, an astonishing change seemed to come over my father.

188. There was the whistle of a bomb which got nearer and nearer.

189. Possibly, but the site of Clairvaux suggests an explanation much nearer at hand.

190. In Moscow, nearer his native Armenia, he placed third.

191. The appointed hour of the ceremony was drawing nearer.

192. He leaned nearer, speaking confidentially.

192. try its best to collect and create good sentences.

193. Walking nearer, he murmured bleakly, Ma.

194. The gap between candidates usually narrows nearer to polling day.

195. The Avent Anti - colic Nipple - nearer to natural feeding.

196. Each step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life.

197. Through pathless woods she ran, but the sound of his pursuing feet ever grew nearer.

198. They were nearer the level of the ancient Sumerians or of the Maya civilization of America.

199. Near an ear, a nearer ear[], a nearly eerie ear.

200. Approaching nearer, the Gothic building is gloomy and heart - rending.

201. He lay and watched his birthday tick nearer, wondering if the Dursleys would remember at all, wondering where the letter writer was now.

202. They are the more insolent, and it is the nearer ended.

203. As the election day came nearer, mud slinging and violence got even worse.

204. And for many of us, that threshold is drawing nearer, or already a distant smirch in the rear-view mirror.

205. The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.

206. He went back into the bedroom, slipped into the nearer bed, and said goodnight.

207. The footsteps came nearer, grew quiet and turned to low whispers like ghosts lamenting.

208. It'slowly drew nearer, with each day bringing a new harbinger of its coming.

209. Anterior ( Ventral, Front ) Nearer to the front of the body is anterior.

210. This brings us an important step nearer to being able to prevent the birth of children with a particular type of inherited disease.

211. She paused and, sensing his tone, walked nearer to him.

212. The oceanographer told delegates that the problem of ocean acidification was worse in high latitudes, in the Arctic and around Antarctica, than it was nearer the equator.

213. When applying force at A , which is nearer fulcrum, A or c?

214. I talked to Yaacov Trope, a New York University professor who has researched how people's reactions change as they get nearer to a situation.

215. Judicial activist, nearer to justice, not letter-bound and surpassing law-makers' design, pays much less attention to precedent and occupies much more independent spirit in reality.

216. I'm always in a flurry ( ie confused and disorganized ) as deadlines get nearer.

217. Nearer home, I loved the stories collected in memory of Katie Sullivan, the 23-year-old mental home care assistant who was murdered last year.

218. The twinkle in his yellow-brown eyes seemed to come nearer.

219. It was inevitable that they should go short on dog food. But they hastened it by overfeeding , bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.

220. Baseball Passing on the side of home plate nearer the batter. Used of a pitch.

221. Those spectra nearer the periphery of the objective are dimmer than those to the central spot.

222. "That must be a jacamar, " said Herbert, trying to get nearer.

223. If the nearer star has orbiting planets,(http:///nearer.html) keen-eyed observers can spot the subtle clues of their presence in the magnified light.

224. Nearer the house, in the shadow of the office, Farrell has built a "plant prison", where the "villains and thugs of the plant world" are confined to cell-like beds.

225. The last thing he needed was another near - fatal accident, with the Quidditch final drawing ever nearer.

226. Through the Law of Attraction whatever you are focussing upon you will bring nearer to manifestation.

227. But how surprised were the boy and girl, when they came nearer, to find that the house was built of gingerbread, and ornamented with sweet cake sand tarts, while the window was formed of barley-sugar.

228. Although it is true that I am near of kin, is a kinsman - redeemer nearer than I.

229. Katherine subtly slowed down as she saw Harold's house getting nearer.

230. Mercury is called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the Sun than the Earth's.

231. In monoecious species, male flowers are usually produced nearer the tip of a shoot than female flowers, this being related to the levels of auxins and other hormones.

232. But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.

233. As we creep nearer and nearer to cold weather, I thought I'd give you a quick update on my apartment-sized Victory Garden.

234. He also figured out the planet goes faster when it's at perihelion, nearer the sun, than when it's at aphelion, its farthest distance.

235. As the appointed day drew nearer, Hopkins started making the 100-mile round trip from Long Island to New York City twice a day, spending at least $15 on gas each trip.

236. The term caudal means nearer to the tail and is used in description of embryos.

237. Jacques argues that something like the tributary system that existed in the past can be re-created, but that system applied mainly to China's nearer and smaller neighbours.