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In two case, divers did not check their gas supplies before their dives and started diving with nearly empty tanks.

"The global 'casino', nearly empty a year ago, is crowded again, and many new bets are on the table, " it said.

You see, when girls are in groups, they pull together much like Cheerios in a nearly empty bowl of milk.

Some hotels have closed for the season, others are nearly empty. Dhows and camel rides have no takers.

Hundreds of reservoirs have dried up and tens of thousands of wells are either dry or nearly empty.

Normally, almost all the electrons remain in the lower energy band, or bucket, leaving the upper band nearly empty.

The rim of gas surrounds a nearly empty (but very hot) cavity, and over time the fast wind clears out an ever larger volume.

The classroom is nearly empty except for a few chairs.

Bulk ships are the mirror image of container ships: they sail for China fully laden and return nearly empty.

But with entry tightly limited, prices were above the competitive level; planes were not just uncrowded, they flew nearly empty.

However, research about Shanxi pawn merchant is nearly empty at present and lack systematical research results.

Internet cafes typically full of teenaged games are nearly empty with speeds still frustratingly slow.

Before fleeing, Mr. Marcos had himself sworn in as president in his nearly empty palace.

As the train approaches the station, it's a rainy day, and the platform is nearly empty.

In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch.

The Michael Friedsam Foundation Merry-Go-Round, nearly empty of children but overflowing with calliope music.

Some reservoirs are nearly empty while the volume of water in some rivers is down to a third of its normal level.

Try it again with the jar nearly empty. Write down your observations.

There are a few things about the night: it's dark, nearly empty, and it makes you suspicious.

Yet the car park on the edge of the crater is nearly empty.

After three scoops the jar was nearly empty.

A No, the car is nearly empty.

At that time of day it's nearly empty, so I bought a coffee and a packet of biscuits--chocolate biscuits.

This is a little city with a small population, On rainy evenings the highway is nearly empty of people

The safe was nearly empty and They were nearly free