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• Wages rose in the last five years, but not nearly as quickly as home prices.
  — Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
• Had the film cost half that and not nearly four times the budget of the original, the knives might not be out for it the same way.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
• But some say the efforts are not nearly enough to tackle the problem.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• Hand twisting was not nearly enough to break the handle free from its head.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2023
• Last year, 4,111 heart transplants were performed in the U.S., a record number but not nearly enough to meet the need.
  — Lauran Neergaard, ajc, 7 June 2023
• But that’s not nearly enough bling for the 24-time Grammy winning artist.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 29 Feb. 2024
• Dew points will still be in the 60s, but not nearly as muggy as the past several days.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• The slices were small like Canyon Bakehouse, but in my opinion the flavor was not nearly as good.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• The slices were small like Canyon Bakehouse, but in my opinion the flavor was not nearly as good.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Their sense appears to be that the evils of the past are not nearly as dangerous now as the willingness to talk about them in the present.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• Yet what played out was a contraction of 3.1%—still a huge loss of output, but not nearly as dire.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• And so there's not nearly as much discretion on those things.
  — Alexis Davies, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2023
• But there is not nearly as much ad spending to fight the ballot measures.
  — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 30 July 2024
• EVs need some air to cool their batteries, but not nearly as much.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
• Plug-in hybrids did well too, growing by 52%, but not nearly as well as the others.
  — Liam Rappleye, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
• The ice diluted a bit, but not nearly as much as usual.
  — Ginger Perra, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2024
• But there’s no doubt that on paper, this current Dodgers team is not nearly as good as last year’s team.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• And those 450 miles were not nearly enough of a deterrent on their own to stop the flow of migrants and drugs over the southern border.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Oct. 2023
• Meaning, not nearly enough time for Arelie to work out, shower, change and be at work on time.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 16 July 2024
• But not nearly enough to meet the goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events like what’s recently struck Brazil.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2023
• The changes should be enough to power the Mountaineers out of the Big 12 cellar but not enough — not nearly enough — to make the program relevant.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
• Yet the outcome in the U.S. Senate is not nearly as suspenseful.
  — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Some justice for the survivors has, indeed, been achieved; not nearly enough as hoped for and deserved.
  — James Hill, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• But the number of strikes this year is not nearly as large as the labor activity seen prior to the 1990’s.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• The situation should improve in the Big 12, but not enough — not nearly enough — to fully close the shortfall.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
• Today, there are more than 400 skyscrapers in New York, but there were not nearly so many during O’Keeffe’s day.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 12 Sep. 2024
• A couple of times quarterback Taylen Green was able to bounce some runs, but not nearly as often.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Cold tubs are very common at the college level, but not nearly as much on high-school sidelines.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
• Red meat, eggs, dairy and poultry are eaten in smaller quantities and not nearly as often as fish and seafood.
  — Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Only a few drops have fallen, not nearly enough to hit the 0.01-inch requirement to be considered measurable.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024