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It’s nigh impossible to pick out who the front-runners are, but the candidates with the most money are drawing a lot from their own bank accounts.

Three quarters of those people believe the end of the world is nigh.

Naturally, this has doomsayers preaching that the end is nigh.

These are, in mechanical terms, simple fixes; politically, a nigh-impossible slog.

Replacing the bread in a sandwich with fried meat makes me worry the apocalypse is nigh.

We pulled every string we could for nigh on a year and a half.

I've always hed a reel mean feelin' about 'em; I didn't want ter come nigh 'em, nor ter hev 'em come nigh me.

In Ireland they have palpably and greatly benefited every class but the stockholders, and these they have well nigh ruined.

All who are in him, though once like those, who were sometimes afar off, are made nigh by his blood.

An' the old woman be quite crazed, an' well nigh dead wi' grief, an' has not been out o' bed for a fortnite.

An officer in the Venezuelan and the Peruvian services was fortunately nigh the banks of the river, shooting wild pigs.